Robert E. Lee

The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.

George Henry Thomas, southerner in blue.

At places like the Gettysburg battlefield and Arlington National Cemetery, there's a new, escalating conflict over monuments that honor the Lost Cause.

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.

It is time to remove the names of traitors like Benning and Bragg from our country’s most important military instillations.

As people have gathered across the country to oppose police violence, they have targeted statues, monuments, and buildings commemorating white supremacy.

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.

The Lee and Jackson statues were erected not to mourn their deaths, but to glorify their character.

Those who seek to hide the achievements of our greatest men and women are making a monumental mistake.

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.

For white southerners, honor had little to do with justice.

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.

The White House chief of staff set off a firestorm Monday after his comments on the Confederate general.

The memorials to the two parishioners will be relocated to a new place of “respectful prominence.”

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.

The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.

At least one monument has come down this summer, but two streets in Brooklyn have proved difficult to rename.

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

America's unconditional love of the Civil War has blinded us to its true meaning.