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 ...

Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee. (Dee ...

Communities across the American South have removed Confederate monuments from public spaces in recent years. Some have gone to museums, others are locked away in storage. But one particularly ...

Teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns is known for leading a student walkout at her high school during the '50s. The walkout was meant to be a protest against the racial segregation at public ...

Melted down in secret, the divisive Confederate monument will be turned into a new piece of public art This story utilizes autoplaying video. Scroll to continue SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a ...

Replacing Lee’s statue in Emancipation Hall is the final piece of a multi-year project to rewrite American history.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the ...

During the Jim Crow era, one of San Antonio’s tallest buildings was named for the Confederacy’s top commander who fought to preserve slavery in the South. Nearly a century after it was built, two neon ...

West Point over its holiday break will remove a portrait of Robert E. Lee in Confederate uniform as well as a bust of the general from prominent spots on campus, carrying out directives that were ...

Two U.S. states honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Do you know which ones? This year, the state and federal holiday also falls ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House, the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop a hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Descendants of the ...