Symbols of the mythic reverence for Robert E. Lee could easily be found in public spaces across ... Along with statues of marble and bronze, plaques provided a cursory biography. While they mentioned ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate general. The two states recognize King and Lee on the third Monday in January. Their state governments ...

Lee instead. Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since the early 1900s, later combining it with the federal celebration of King, which President Ronald ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them. The holidays were adopted by ...

On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was ... According to Biography, they said that Blake had only four or five particles on his hands, but he would have had nearly 100 particles if he had fired a gun ...

The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that once stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down at a ceremonial event. After both cultural and legal battles, the statue of ...

But when World War II started, Adams felt called to serve, according to an Army biography ... A Virginia Army base previously named for Robert E. Lee was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams at a ceremony ...

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Nearly a century after it was built, two neon signs with Robert E. Lee’s name still shine over downtown, serving as a reminder to the city’s secessionist past. The Express-News invited ...

The cultural struggle over the legacy of slavery and the Civil War rages on, but it does so increasingly without the involvement of the handsome, treasonous and defeated Robert E. Lee. In his review ...