Only one of Robert E. Lee’s other brothers and half-brothers had a child who married -- and his progeny died at young ages. Instead, when we worked backward from Rob Lee’s family — the ...

His father, Henry Lee, had been a brilliant general in the Revolutionary War. As a young man, Robert E. Lee attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated with honors.

The most recent victory on this score occurred in New Orleans this past weekend when a statue of General Robert E. Lee ... Harry Truman referred to Lee a “great man.” He gave his mother ...

Lee was easy to admire, even to celebrate, as a man who transcended the ugly realities behind the Confederate cause. In “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” Allen C. Guelzo punctures the Lost Cause ...

The largest confederate memorial in America is carved out of the rock at Stone Mountain Park, as seen on February 3, 2019 in ...

This is the man that John Kelly calls "honorable." Robert E. Lee is a key figure in American history who merits a prominent place in our study of the Civil War era. He was a complex, arguably ...

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Monday called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man” and said that “the lack of an ability to compromise” led to the Civil War, once again ...

Rev. Lee believes the history of Robert E. Lee should be taught in schools in an “honest” way. He wants the education system to teach his role in the Civil War, but to not make him a man that ...

All this and more can be found in the new book, "The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History" by Jonathan Horn, who served as a ...