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,” he says ...

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 ...

Since the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee’s dignified visage has been the most formidable emblem of the “Lost Cause” tradition, which portrayed the Confederacy’s bid for independence as a noble ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Goldfield ROBERT E. LEE A Life By Allen C. Guelzo The historian Allen C. Guelzo is a ...

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 ...

Former Army Captain Jimmy Byrn graduated from the military academy at West Point in 2012. He spent late nights studying in the library underneath a giant portrait of Robert E. Lee in his gray ...

The statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was removed from a public park in Dallas after a city council vote in 2017 A statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee on his horse, which was removed ...

A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin were found Wednesday in a time capsule that lay hidden beneath a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Virginia for more ...

Family members of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee and descendants of people the Lee family enslaved will meet on the very same land their ancestors lived and worked on in a reconciliatory event ...

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 was ...

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that once stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down at a ceremonial event. After both cultural and legal battles, the statue of Lee ...