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 ...

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 ...

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

State offices and most schools will be closed today in honor of General Robert E. Lee who led the Confederate ... He died when Robert was 11 so the younger Lee never experienced the lavish lifestyle ...

The tarnished reputation of his once-great father will haunt Robert E. Lee for the rest of his life. Robert's older ... appoints Lee to a minor position as his personal military adviser.

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