Workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, May 19, 2017. Gerald Herbert / AP ...

NEW ORLEANS — The 16-foot-tall bronze statue of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans was removed Friday from its perch high above St. Charles Avenue where the Confederate general had stood watch for 133 ...

The pedestal of the New Orleans statue of Andrew Jackson may be unique. Prominently displayed is Jackson’s famous quote “the Union must be preserved.” ...

New Orleans has begun removing statues that the city’s mayor said were erected to honor the “lost cause of the Confederacy.”. The first to go early Monday morning was the Battle of Liberty ...

A portrait of famed artist Edgar Degas, left, appears to look at a bronze reproduction of his most famous sculpture, "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years," outside the Degas House in New Orleans on ...