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 ...

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 ...

As a historian, Allen C. Guelzo is acutely aware of how perceptions change over time. When he started his latest biography, “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” back in 2014, “Lee was a different person ...

Robert E. Lee: A Life is a new biography that examines one of the most well-known and controversial Civil War figures.Author ALLEN C. GUELZO, professor and historian at Princeton University, covers ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee often concluded orders to his generals with polite phrases easily misinterpreted as escape clauses. On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, he ordered Lt. Gen ...

In “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” Allen C. Guelzo punctures the Lost Cause mythology without indulging in culture-war polemics, and he examines Lee’s life and moral culpability with a judicious eye.

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.

A foundry worker using a plasma torch prepares to cut the head of Charlottesville’s bronze monument of Robert E. Lee in preparation for melting the statue, Oct. 21, 2023.

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. Army, 1838. PD. Robert Edward Lee is the fourth child born to Colonel Harry and Ann Lee, prominent members of the Virginia ...