After the Wednesday meeting of the city of Charleston’s history commission – the first since the sudden December appearance of a controversial 2.4-ton Confederate highway monument in Marion Square – it’s still unclear how it got there.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) –A highway marker honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee has a new home in Marion Square, but is raising concerns among some city leaders, who say the decision lacked public input.

A Confederate memorial to Robert E. Lee now sits in Charleston's Marion Square, but questions have arisen about how the tribute to the controversial figure was placed in such a prominent location.

While previewing a proposed construction of a Paris-style arch in Washington, D.C., supposedly in his honor ahead of the United States’s 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump also gave a nod to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. On Wednesday, Trump ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A time capsule estimated to be more than 130 years old, unearthed from the base of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, was opened Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, and the artifacts showed a snapshot of life in the Confederate capital.

Gen. Robert E. Lee was vilified during the Civil War only to become a heroic symbol of "The Lost Cause" and eventually a racist icon. Historians say his transformation, at the center of the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va., reflects the changing moods in the United States around race, mythology and national reconciliation.

An underwater look at wrecks that rest only miles apart in the Gulf of Mexico. The Robert E. Lee, a passenger steamer that was attacked en route from New Orleans to Trinidad, is seen in this image made from the "A Tale of Two Wrecks: U-166 and SS Robert E.