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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Aframed reproduction of a famous oil painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander of the armies of the Confederate states, has come home to Loudoun after a long absence. The life-size oil portrait 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 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 ...
The Robert E. Lee was built as a hotel in 1922 and is famous for its neon sign advertising air conditioning — it was one of the first air-conditioned buildings in Texas.
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.
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.