In 2023, the longstanding Robert E. Lee statute in Charlottesville was melted down to be made into a new artwork. (photo by Eze Amos, courtesy Swords Into Plowshares at the Jefferson School ...

President Donald Trump may drive Democrats to the polls in Virginia governor’s race this year, according to a new poll, but the ghost of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee may ...

Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since the early 1900s, later combining it with the federal celebration of King, which President Ronald Reagan signed ...

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It’s been almost a decade since the Austin elementary school my kids attended, the school formerly known as Robert E. Lee Elementary, was the site of an early skirmish in the latest round of ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the giant pedestal where it has towered over ...

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, which was removed from Charlottesville, Va.'s Market Street Park in 2021, has been melted down so that it can be turned into a new art installation.

This photo included in the National Register of Historic Places application shows the view of the Robert E. Lee hotel circa 1938. The signs were added atop the hotel that year.

Instead, Lee’s statue was commissioned by a single individual: Paul Goodloe McIntire, a businessman, and one of Charlottesville’s largest benefactors.

Virginia state conservators work on a box believed to be a time capsule left in the pedestal at the former site of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., Dec. 28, 2021.

Crews removing the pedestal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Va., on Monday found what appeared to be an elusive time capsule that may contain rare Confederate memorabilia, including a photo ...