Robert E. Lee

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.

I was raised to venerate Lee the principled patriot—but I want no association with Lee the defender of slavery.

Most of President Donald Trump's 20th-century predecessors expressed profound admiration for Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

When a college is named for two slave owners, one of whom was a Confederate hero, history is complicated.

I didn't know the Confederate general owned slaves. I didn't even know he was part of the Confederacy.

For decades, slaveholders were powerfully committed to the Union. That changed when Washington stopped protecting their interests.

Stripping Virginia of its Lee tributes is far harder than it is in other places.

A 1928 essay by W.E.B. DuBois on the legacy of Robert E. Lee.

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

Lee should not be defined not only by his time as a Confederate general, but also by his actions after the war was over.

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg

Historians have revealed that the story Americans long learned about the end of the Civil War was a myth.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

James Longstreet became a champion of Reconstruction. Why?