Crews work on Sept. 8 to remove a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond. (Steve Helber/AP) In 1935, the year before Margaret Mitchell’s magnolia-scented novel “Gone ...

As a historian, Allen C. Guelzo is acutely aware of how perceptions change over time. When he started his latest biography, “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” back in 2014, “Lee was a different person ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's ...

Rep. Wesley Hunt argued against removing confederate names from military bases during an appearance on"Real Time" Friday, ...

Michael Korda’s superb new biography of the Confederate general, Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee</i></a>, chisels away at the myth.

There’s been much controversy in Charlottesville and beyond about preserving monuments to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. But if you had a chance to ask him, he’d most likely say, no thanks.

Guelzo calculates that Lee may have had as many as four heart attacks before the one that caused his death on Oct. 12, 1870. Robert E. Lee opposed erecting statues to himself and his brothers-in-arms.

President Trump may see the statues commemorating the Confederacy and Robert E. Lee as things of “beauty” that will be “greatly missed.” But Lee himself did not share the sentiment. To him ...

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have protested the removal of Confederate monuments. But the Confederate general Robert E. Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.