He is celebrated by handsome equestrian statues in countless cities and towns across the American South, and by two postage stamps issued by the government he fought against during the four bloodiest years in American history. Nearly a century and a half after his death, Robert E. Lee, the leading Confederate general of the American Civil War, remains a source of fascination and, for some, veneration. This two-hour film examines the life and reputation of the Confederacy's pre-eminent general, whose military successes made him the scourge of the Union and the hero of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and who was elevated to almost god-like status by his admirers after his death.
Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents a 90 minute film on Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/grant
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Official National Park Service site with an expanded in depth section on the surrender at Appomattox.
http://www.nps.gov/apco/index.htm
Arlington House and Robert E. Lee Memorial
Arlington House was the home of Robert E. Lee and his family for 30 years.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/arho/tour/home.html
Gettysburg Foundation
A partnership with the National Park Service that enhances the preservation and understanding of the heritage and lasting significance of Gettysburg.
http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/
Library of Congress Webcast
A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4083
The Museum of the Confederacy
A collection of artifacts, manuscripts, and photographs from the Confederate States of America.
http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer
The Office of Robert E. Lee
Lee Chapel & Museum, Washington and Lee University.
http://www.mfmdesign.com/lee_final/index.html
Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home Virtual Museum
The Boyhood Home Of Robert E. Lee In Alexandria, VA., a description and a virtual tour.
http://www.leeboyhoodhome.com/
Robert E. Lee Mexican War Maps, Virginia Military Institute
Collection details and online exhibit from the VMI Archives.
http://www.vmi.edu/archives.aspx?id=4294968301
Robert E. Lee Papers
From Special Collections at Washington and Lee University.
http://miley.wlu.edu/LeePapers/
Robert E. Lee Timeline
"Today in Civil War History" offers a summary of Lee's battles during the war.
http://www.todayincivilwarhistory.com/lee.php
Stratford Hall
Home of the Lees of Virginia and Birthplace of Robert E. Lee.
http://www.stratfordhall.org/
Ayers, Edward L., In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Blight, David, Frederick Douglass’s Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Blount, Roy Jr., Robert E. Lee. Penguin Putnam: New York, 2003.
Carmichael, Peter S. (Ed.), Audacity Personified, the Generalship of Robert E. Lee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Connelly, Thomas Lawrence. The Marble Man: Robert E. lee and His Image in American Society. New York: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
Daniels, Jonathan, The Randolphs of Virginia: America’s Foremost Family. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.
DeButts, Robert E.L., Lee In Love: Courtship and Correspondence in Antebellum, Virginia. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 115, No. 4., Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 2007.
Fellman, Michael, The Making of Robert E. Lee. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Freeman, Douglas Southall, R.E. Lee: A Biography (vols. I-IV). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935.
Gallagher, Gary W. (Ed.), Fighting for the Confederacy, Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Gallagher, Gary W., Lee and his Generals in War & Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2004.
Gallagher, Gary W., Lee the Soldier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Glatthaar, Joseph, General Lee’s Army. New York: Free Press, 2008.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.
Lee, Robert E., Jr. (Ed.), Recollections and Letters. New York: Barnes & Nobles Books, 1904/2004.
McPherson, James W., Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Nagel, Paul C., The Lees of Virginia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Nelligan, Murray, “The Building of Arlington House,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1951.
Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, Reading the Man, A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters. New York: Viking, 2007.
Rhea, Gordon C., The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
Sears, Stephen W., Landscape Turned Red, Battle of Antietam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Taylor, Walter H., Four Years With General Lee. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, (reissue 1996).
Thomas, Emory M., Robert E. Lee, A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Tower, R. Lockwood (Ed.), Lee’s Adjutant: The Wartime Letters of Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, 1862-1865. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
The story of a Vietnamese mother, the Amerasian daughter she sent away for adoption, and their reunion 22 years after the Vietnam War.
Today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history, poet Walt Whitman was denounced by critics in his own time.
A brilliant scientist, Oppenheimer was tasked with the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
James Michael Curley and his sophisticated political machine dominated Boston for almost half a century.
A nostalgic and humorous look at how old world Chicago lives side by side with the new.
America's Robin Hood who robbed not only the rich but the poor and defenseless as well, always saving the treasure for himself. Part of the Wild West collection.
The young CBS reporter changed his pacifist ideals after reporting on the rise of fascism in Europe during World War II.
Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader from Jamaica, had great successes and failures before being jailed and deported from the US in 1927.
