PBS’ ‘Robert E. Lee’ documentary draws a portrait of a complex man. By Scott Timberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times . Dec. 30, 2010 12 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, ... Robert E. Lee. 1807–70 Virginia Confederate General.

Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...

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 ...

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.

Families of Robert E. Lee and enslaved people unite to tell a more inclusive history together 05:29. Visitors can return to Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, starting on Tuesday.

Now that the statue of Robert E. Lee that towered over the onetime capital of the Confederacy has been cut into pieces and hauled away to some obscure warehouse, maybe the weaponized myth of Lee ...

Robert W. Lee tells NPR's Michel Martin what it's like to grapple with the legacy of his ancestor, Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He wrote about this in a memoir, "A Sin by Any Other Name." ...

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.