The Confederate government was led by Jefferson Davis who was elected President of the Confederacy. The most famous military commanders on the side of the Confederacy were General Robert E. Lee and …
A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point's library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military ...
President Donald Trump’s long-running fixation on rewriting how the country remembers its past surfaced again last week when he praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee […] ...
News 6 WKMG: West Point restores Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s portrait
A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point’s library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military ...
Military.com: Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point
The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state can remove a large statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from the city of Richmond's "Monument Avenue." Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ...
CHARLESTON — A resolution calling for the immediate removal of a two-ton highway marker commemorating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Marion Square failed to go to a vote April 1 during the city’s ...
A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will ...
The Confederate government was led by Jefferson Davis who was elected President of the Confederacy. The most famous military commanders on the side of the Confederacy were General Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Washington Examiner: Robert E. Lee’s descendant urges Congress to remove statues of Confederate generals
A descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee told Congress that he supports the country removing statues of his distant uncle and all other Confederate leaders. Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV testified ...
Robert E. Lee’s descendant urges Congress to remove statues of Confederate generals
WPTV-TV: Time capsule under removed Confederate statue reveals Gen. Robert E. Lee buttons, songbook
Some buttons, horse hair, and other items believed to have belonged to Confederate General Robert E. Lee and other leaders at the time, were found in a metal box beneath the Confederate Soldiers ...
Time capsule under removed Confederate statue reveals Gen. Robert E. Lee buttons, songbook
koaa: Time capsule under removed Confederate statue reveals Gen. Robert E. Lee buttons, songbook
A controversial 2.4-ton road marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee appeared last week without hoopla at Marion Square on King Street, surprising some history buffs around Charleston. “It ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Thursday that one of the country’s premier monuments to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee along Richmond’s prominent Monument Avenue, ...
Post and Courier: Robert E. Lee Confederate memorial in Marion Square outside of Charleston commission’s purview
Robert E. Lee Confederate memorial in Marion Square outside of Charleston commission’s purview
The Grio: Who was Barbara Rose Johns, the Black teen activist whose statue is replacing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s in the U.S. Capitol?
Who was Barbara Rose Johns, the Black teen activist whose statue is replacing Gen. Robert E. Lee’s in the U.S. Capitol?
The Daily Gazette: Gen. Lee statue comes down in former Confederate capital
RICHMOND, Va. — A statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Richmond for generations was taken down, cut into pieces and hauled away Wednesday, as the former capital of the Confederacy erased the ...
Post and Courier: Robert E. Lee Confederate memorial finds new home in downtown Charleston’s Marion Square
CHARLESTON — In 2020, Marion Square said goodbye to one famous Southern leader and enslaver, John C. Calhoun. On Dec. 11, the downtown park welcomed another, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Five years after ...
Robert E. Lee Confederate memorial finds new home in downtown Charleston’s Marion Square
Now part of the "Monuments" exhibition on the West Coast, the remnants of Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee statue will come back east to be transformed into new public art.
WUSA: Gov. Northam announces removal of Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond
Forbes: An Ingenuously Subversive Exhibition Presents Fallen Confederate Monuments As Works Of Contemporary Art
On view at MOCA and the Brick in Los Angeles, the remains of statues honoring Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson take on new and noteworthy meanings. What is the weight of history? In the early 1920s ...
An Ingenuously Subversive Exhibition Presents Fallen Confederate Monuments As Works Of Contemporary Art
TwinCities.com: US Capitol unveils statue of teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns, taking Robert E. Lee’s spot
US Capitol unveils statue of teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns, taking Robert E. Lee’s spot
RICHMOND — Del. Lee Ware, R-Powhatan, rose for a point of personal privilege Thursday afternoon and took the opportunity to urge against the passage of a bill that would remove several Confederate ...
fox17online: Virginia Supreme Court says statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond can be removed
Virginia Supreme Court says statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond can be removed
The public has been invited to weigh in on how the bronze that once made up Charlottesville's statue of Robert E. Lee will be reconstituted. That input, however, might not ...
Washington Examiner: Barbara Rose Johns statue to go up on Capitol Hill in place of former Robert E. Lee statue
Barbara Rose Johns statue to go up on Capitol Hill in place of former Robert E. Lee statue
The Virginian-Pilot: US Capitol statue of teen civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns to fill Robert E. Lee’s place
US Capitol statue of teen civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns to fill Robert E. Lee’s place
In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...