Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white-supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. That doesn’t ...

“Grant,” one user wrote with an expressionless emoji. “It’s time to return Edward Valentine’s statue of Robert E. Lee to the Capitol.” Internet culture is chaotic—but we’ll break ...

Robert E. Lee once stood. The Lee statue remains on view, but in a cemetery 2 miles down the road. These approaches represent different and sometimes conflicting narratives about removed monuments.

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...