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Some 21st century historians, including [[Eric Foner]], have been more critical of Freeman, whose biography of Lee, Foner calls a "[[hagiography]]," criticizing its lack of nuance and the limited attention paid to Lee's relationship to slavery.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foner|first1=Eric|title=The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/books/review/eric-foner-robert-e-lee.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 28, 2017|access-date=September 18, 2017}}</ref>
In 2021, some students and faculty at the University of Richmond, where Freeman served as Rector for seven years, criticized the University board of trustees for refusing to remove Freeman's name from a campus building, although he had "supported racial segregation, opposed interracial marriage and promoted racist concepts underlying the eugenics movement." The “greatest inheritance,” Freeman once said, was “clean blood, right-thinking ancestry.” On March 28, 2022, the Trustees of the University of Richmond voted to remove Douglas Southall Freeman’s name from the campus building, due to his lifelong history of support for and furtherance of racism and segregation. <ref>{{Cite news|title=Uproar erupts at U. of Richmond over building names with ties to racism|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/03/25/university-richmond-ryland-freeman-buildings/|access-date=2021-10-13|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
==Honors and awards==
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