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 ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... ancestors who fought to defend states' rights and their way of life. There was another surge in response to civil rights expansion in ...

Lee instead. Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday ... The general’s personal opinions on race have been contested and distorted since his death, but ...

Two U.S. states honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Do you know which ones? This year, the state and federal holiday also falls ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of ...

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