President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is restoring the names of Confederate traitors who fought to keep Black people ...

It's a story Steve Hammond and his family have spent years unraveling. Hammond learned that General Lee freed his relative, Charles Syphax, and dozens of other enslaved people. "Robert E.

Family members of Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee and descendants of people the Lee family enslaved will meet on the very same land their ancestors lived and worked on in a reconciliatory event ...

Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky woman who was enraged over the damage federal artillery fire had done to a once beautiful tree in her front yard.

Descendants of confederate leader Robert E Lee have denounced ... of a statue of the general in Lee Park, in the biggest rally of its kind for at least a decade. "Our family extends our deepest ...

Robert E. Lee ... general’s great-great-grandson and an athletic director at a school in McLean, Va., said many people don’t understand his ancestor’s legacy. “We were never taught in our ...

the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop a hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Descendants of the Confederate general gathered with the descendants of the people the Lee family once ...

The Robert E. Lee Memorial.” The Family Circle proposes amending the name to simply Arlington House. “I don't feel like we're taking the name away,” says Rob Lee, the general’s great-great ...

For decades, the family appeared to be united in promoting the adulation of its best-known member, the pre-eminent Confederate general Robert E. Lee ... of how the Lee family tree came to include ...