The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

The Descendants of Robert E. Lee and the Workers He Enslaved Join Hands in Racial Reconciliation The Confederate general’s Virginia home hosted families from all across the United States.

The descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

Descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will gather with descendants of enslaved persons at the place where they once lived: Lee’s former plantation home, Arlington House.

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 ...

Descendants of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and descendants of slaves owned by Lee participate in a reunion at Lee’s former plantation home, the Arlington House, at Arlington National ...

Descendants of the enslaved and enslavers tied to the plantation home of George Washington Parke Custis and Robert E. Lee gathered at the grounds.

For Father’s Day, we begin a few stories about Archibald Stuart, the father of J. E. B. Stuart and the owner of the Laurel ...

When was Robert E. Lee’s name added to Arlington House? Congress and President Calvin Coolidge designated Arlington House as a national memorial to Robert E. Lee in 1925 to honor his role in promoting ...

Robert E. Lee. 1807–70 Virginia Confederate General. ... President of Washington College after the war, he lost his family home, Arlington, now the nation’s largest military cemetery.

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.