Robert E. Lee

John Oliver reflects on the history of Confederate monuments.

Tearing down monuments is only the beginning to understanding the false narrative of Jim Crow.

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.

The Georgia landmark is a testament to the enduring legacy of white supremacy

There's a reason you won't find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee's most able deputies.

One alternative to tearing down Confederate monuments: creatively repurposing them.

Many monuments in the South were made in the North — by the same companies, and with the same molds, as those sold to Northern towns.

Confederate memory nurtured fascism.

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

Jefferson had a complicated relationship with white supremacy.

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

"I think we have to increase our shame — and I don't think shame is a bad thing."

Why New Orleans took down monuments that had been installed by supporters of the "Cult of the Lost Cause."

Why hasn't Richmond faced the same controversies as New Orleans or Charlottesville?

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.

What is to be done with a landscape whose features carry the legacy of violence?

In 1890, the former Confederate capital erected a monument to Robert E. Lee-and reasserted white supremacy.

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.