Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

For me, a line was crossed this week when the faculty at Washington & Lee University voted to demand the school drop the second half of its name to erase its affiliation with Robert E. Lee.

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.

A top athlete at a Texas high school named after Robert E. Lee is helping lead a charge of students who say they will no longer wear the school’s jersey, as they do not want to represent the ...

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...

The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - JULY 10: Workers remove a statue of ...