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West Point historians were baffled when a time capsule from when Robert E Lee was a cadet turned out to be basically empty inside
The lead box was found in May inside the base of a monument on West Point's campus and believed to …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Confederate artifacts were discovered inside of an 1887 box buried under a now-removed Robert E. Lee statue. Again.
Conservators revealed coins, bullets, books, and other items in the unveiling of the box, according…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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A second time capsule was unexpectedly found hidden beneath Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue
Last week, a different time capsule was opened after it was found underneath the pedestal of the Co…
Jake Epstein,DeArbea Walker
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Charlottesville is giving a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee to an African-American art museum which plans to melt it down
Charlottesville's city council voted to donate the bronze statue, taken down in July, to the Jeffer…
Sinéad Baker
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The childhood home of Robert E. Lee was listed for sale online but description fails to mention the Confederate general's association to the property, reports say
The historical marker outside of the Alexandria, Virginia, home is not shown on the online listing …
Taylor Ardrey
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Missouri GOP lawmaker suggests Lincoln Memorial should come down after Robert E. Lee statue is removed in Richmond
"If we insist on tearing down statues of reprehensible people, let's at least be fair and balanced …
Connor Perrett
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Trump issues statement against Richmond tearing down statue of General Robert E. Lee, calls him a great 'unifying force'
"If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended …
Vanessa Gu
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The largest Confederate statue in the US was removed and the crowd cheered, 'hey, hey, hey, goodbye'
Virginia's Democratic governor ordered the statue of Robert E. Lee to be removed more than a year a…
Kimberly Leonard
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A statue of Robert E. Lee was removed in Charlottesville, 4 years after white nationalist rally
The Charlottesville City Council announced it voted unanimously to remove statues depicting Confede…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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2 Confederate statues in Charlottesville will be removed 4 years after a violent white supremacist rally
Charlottesville announced on Friday that it will remove two statues of Confederate army generals ne…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee statue removed from the US Capitol
The Confederate statue was removed as part of a provision in the recent defense spending bill, whic…
Jake Lahut
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Top stories this AM: North Korea barred from the Olympics for a year; Trump's not happy the giant statue of Robert E. Lee has been torn down; Biden prepares to sue Texas
The International Olympic Committee barred North Korea from the Olympics until the end of 2022 for …
INSIDER
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Photos show how the Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia has been reclaimed to support the Black Lives Matter movement
"There's just a feeling of community and family. All around the circle, you have all different peop…
Natalie Colarossi
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J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.
Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to d…
Jenny McGrath
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A high school in Virginia named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee will be renamed after civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis
"I was proud to recommend to the Board that we name our school after such a distinguished American,…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Here's what Robert E. Lee thought about Confederate monuments
"As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated," Lee wrote in December 1866 about a…
Daniel Brown
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After treasuring a painting of Robert E. Lee for 40 years, General Stanley McChrystal threw it away and began to question the leaders he admired
McChrystal: You can process it in a lot of ways. You could take a strict business sense you could s…
Richard Feloni,Sarah Wyman
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Trump equates Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson with George Washington in bizarre press conference
Jason Kessler, who organized the "Unite The Right" rally, called the event a " pro-white demon…
Sonam Sheth
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Holiday hiring wars: Amazon, Walmart, UPS, and FedEx face off in a race to staff more than 335,000 workers in a brutally tight labor market
Insider spoke to four supply chain experts to gauge what employers are up against in terms of the o…
Áine Cain
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Charlottesville started with a statue of Robert E. Lee - Here are 11 Confederate figures whose monuments are sparking controversy across the US
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that there are 1,503 Confederate symbols displaye…