By casting a cool eye on the Confederate general, Allen C. Guelzo allows facts to validate today’s removals of Lee’s name and statues from public buildings and places.

Riley Green Pulls ‘Bury Me in Dixie’ From Streaming Services Over Gen. Robert E. Lee Reference Alabama vocalist sings "I wish Robert E. Lee could come and take a bow," sparking criticism ...

Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

How the general’s descendants regard his role in history — and his place atop pedestals.

To the editor: Robert E. Lee betrayed his uniform and his country in choosing to serve a rebellion whose overriding rationale was the preservation of slavery, as the leaders of that rebellion ...

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a nephew many generations removed of Robert E. Lee, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why the statue of the Confederate general in Charlottesville must come down.

The name Robert Lee has suddenly become inconvenient. Names, such as Bob Lee or Roy Clark seem quite personal — discretely ours — until, of course, we Google it.

White supremacists gather under a statue of Robert E. Lee during a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12. Lee's descendants have denounced the violent actions that led to a counter ...

After his remarks speaking out against white supremacy at the MTV Video Music Awards rankled members of his parish, Robert Lee IV, a descendant of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, has left his ...

The Confederate general looms large in Southern history — and that history will get special attention in 2011, as the nation marks 150 years since the Civil War began.

Former President Donald Trump ripped removal of a massive statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, warning that “our culture is being destroyed and our history an… ...