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“I think the myth of Robert E. Lee — the marble man — has kind of aged out,” says Zwonitzer, a Connecticut-based documentary producer and author on American history.
Think you know Arlington? The county was once home to Gen. Robert E. Lee and has also been home to a world-themed amusement park and a Tops Drivette. It was where Orville Wright tested planes and ...
Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, and now his statue has lost its place on Richmond's Monument Avenue. A pair of filmmakers tells the story of why both those things matter. HANNAH AYERS: We made ...
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 ...
Second time capsule discovered at site of former Lee statue Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E ...
Henrietta Lacks statue will replace Robert E. Lee monument in Virginia A statue of the woman, whose cells were taken without her consent and became integral in several major medical breakthroughs ...
A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed from its pedestal in Virginia's capital city Wednesday morning. The 21-foot-tall statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond was one of the ...
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.
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.
In May 2017, a crane removed a 16½ foot-tall bronze statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from its perch 60 feet above New Orleans. The statue was one of four Confederate monuments the city's former mayor ...