Because of the short life of the first statue, CulturalDC, along with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) and the school asked Williams to recast it for the new year. The second statue ...

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.

Abraham Lincoln wax statue headless after melting in scorching DC heat By . Isabel Keane. Published June 27, 2024, 10:55 a.m. ET. He let the heat get to his head.

According to the rumor, Musk was considering melting the world-famous statue to make a series of limited-edition Tesla Cybertrucks. Musk jokingly posted ( archived ) on X on Dec. 11, 2024, " No, I ...

Charlottesville’s nearly 100-year-old statue of Robert E. Lee will be melted and turned into a piece of public art, as the city faces a history of racial harm and aims now for a future of racial ...

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the center of the deadly 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down last week.

SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. SOUTH — It was a choice to melt down Robert E. Lee. But it would have been a choice to keep him intact, too. So the statue of the Confederate general that once stood in ...

A foundry worker using a plasma torch prepares to cut the head of Charlottesville’s bronze monument of Robert E. Lee in preparation for melting the statue, Oct. 21, 2023.

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

The City Council of Charlottesville, Va., voted on Tuesday to donate a statue of Robert E. Lee to an African American heritage center that plans to melt the bronze monument, the focus of a deadly ...