Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops ...

On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's father, also known as "Light-Horse Harry," had been a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War.

Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, ...

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...

Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi ... although he obviously wasn’t the only one guilty of it. The Civil War was an American conflict, with Americans on both sides. An honorable soldier, Lee is ...

Statues of generals Lee and Jackson in Baltimore were removed earlier this week It's been over 150 years since the last shots were fired in the US Civil War ... such as Robert E Lee or Thomas ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S ... Stained-glass windows depicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were removed in 2017.