Governor Lee made erecting a monument to his uncle a priority, in order to keep the fires of Confederate memory kindled. In 1886 the general assembly put him in charge of a memorial association ...

“You let your haters be your motivators.” In many ways, Monument – as it referred to in Richmond – is ground zero for America’s monument debate. The five-mile boulevard in the heart of ...

It was funded by the Washington National Monument Society, a private organization, and designed by Robert Mills, America’s first native-born architect. The society went bankrupt trying to raise ...