The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are instantly recognizable.

ARLINGTON, Va. — There was a one-of-a-kind reunion over the weekend at Arlington House, the national memorial to Robert E. Lee that sits atop a hill in Arlington National Cemetery. Descendants of the ...

THE growth of a Lee legend is greatly to be deplored, most of all by Lee’s warmest admirers. ‘ One may search in vain for any defect in him,’ says one of the latest historians of the war. ‘Indeed, the ...

Descendants of the enslavers and the enslaved unite for a family portrait at the Arlington House, the former plantation once owned by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee. (Dee ...