Lee, the reluctant, tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography, Robert E. Lee ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Robert E. Lee followed a similar ideological trajectory ... This was really an announcement that the Civil War was no longer a war just to preserve the Union; freeing the enslaved population ...

Using innovative cartographic tools, she has cast fresh light on hoary historical debates—What was Robert E. Lee thinking at ... has been well received by Civil War scholars.

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

The holiday is observed on the last Monday of April and commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. Attempts to remove the holiday and replace it with Juneteenth have been ...

One hundred sixty years ago, at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Ulysses S. Grant was looking for some kind of breakthrough against ...

Some great TV shows use the American Civil War as a backdrop or as a major narrative pillar. Here are the best ones.

The holiday commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in the Civil War. Observances include ... with observance of birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, according to the United ...

Mississippi also celebrates Robert E. Lee Day on the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Mississippi will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day soon. Only four states still honor the Civil War ...