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After a long delay, the National Park Service is gearing up to reopen the renovated home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a Greek Revival-style mansion built by slaves more than 200 years ago ...
With Robert E. Lee's Statue Gone, Virginia Reveals New Plans For Its Pedestal A 133-year-old time capsule that was placed at the pedestal of the Confederate monument in Richmond, Va. in 1887 will ...
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stood in the heart of Charlottesville, Virginia, for almost a century will be melted down into bronze ingots that will be used to create new public art.
Charlottesville, Va., approved a plan to melt down a Robert E. Lee statue — central in a deadly and violent white nationalist rally five years ago — and put a public art installation in its place.
The fight over whether to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a Charlottesville, Virginia, park has morphed into one about what form the now-toppled replica should take.
Robert E. Lee lived there from age 5 until he left for West Point in 1825. He later visited the home in 1870. For eight decades, members of the Lee family resided there.
Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV says he’s tired of neo-Nazis and the KKK using Gen. Robert E. Lee as a symbol for hate. He wants Confederate statues used in a different way.
RICHMOND, Va. - History buffs still captivated by Gen. Robert E. Lee planned lectures, a banquet and artillery salutes to mark the 200th anniversary of the Confederate strategist's birth.
The exhibit”s centerpiece was a two-page document — a copy of Gen. Robert E. Lee”s secret Special Orders No. 191, detailing the Southern commander”s audacious plans for an invasion of ...
It’ll be back to square one for Richmond Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch’s hopes of renaming the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge. Lynch had hoped to recharge a stalled effort with a proposal to ...
The tenants union for downtown's Robert E. Lee apartments said they plan to make a "rebuttal" to San Antonio-based developer Weston Urban's recent bid to buy the historic, low-income property.