Robert E. Lee

Don’t let extremists on both sides destroy honor and valor, even as they seek to destroy everything else.

Many were funded privately. The public now deserves a say in their fate.

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

If you understand why that Civil War statue really went up, the debate over removing it looks a lot different.

The only logic to honoring Lee is to honor treason and treason in the worst possible cause.

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.

A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.

Before New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu made his celebrated speech, a grassroots movement forced the city to take down its monuments to white supremacy.

The city council decides to remove four memorials that offered a distorted picture of the city’s past.

Why eliminate street names that tell one part of Southern history when we can amplify them to tell even more of it?

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

Washington Cathedral’s break with Confederate memory.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools.

In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

The back-and-forth life of Confederate James Longstreet.

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

A bad history.