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Texas Public Radio5d
Their San Antonio apartment building was going to be sold to a private developer. Then they organized.
The San Antonio Housing Trust Foundation's bid for the Robert E. Lee Apartments was accepted last month after tenants in the ...
The Washington Post4y
This man says he’s related to Robert E. Lee. There’s no evidence.
In his 2019 book “A Sin by Another Name,” Lee says that for as long as he can remember, there was a painting of Robert E. Lee on his grandmother’s den wall.He describes how his “Nana ...
The Washington Post7y
Robert E. Lee V: What it’s like to carry around this name
Robert E. Lee V is the great-great-grandson of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The D.C. resident is also the longtime boys’ athletic director at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., which my children attend ...
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Allen C. Guelzo on his biiography of Robert E. Lee, statues - Los Angeles Times
On the Shelf. Robert E. Lee: A Life. By Allen C. Guelzo Knopf: 608 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent ...
Smithsonian Magazine14d
A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered
The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...
CNN3y
Robert E. Lee’s descendant proves his lineage and pushes for ‘honest’ history of racism - CNN
Rev. Robert W. Lee felt like his integrity was being challenged when Confederate defenders continued to accuse him of lying about being a distant relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Air Force Times on MSN12d
Fort named after Gen. Robert E. Lee will now honor a Buffalo Soldier
Adams, formerly Fort Lee, was in 2023 the first Army base to be named for Black Americans. Now, it'll be the first named for ...
PolitiFact26d
Military bases’ new names sound as if they’re named after Confederates, but that’s not the case
During a visit to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, President Donald Trump said that seven military bases once named for Confederate military figures — and then renamed under former President Joe Biden ...
Rep. Wesley Hunt defends Trump's move to restore Robert E. Lee's name to military base
Rep. Wesley Hunt argued against removing confederate names from military bases during an appearance on"Real Time" Friday, claiming if we don't remember our history, "we are doomed to repeat it." ...
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Descendants of Robert E. Lee and those he enslaved reconcile at Arlington House - NPR
The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.
Confederacy group sues Georgia park for planning an exhibit on slavery and segregation
The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed a lawsuit against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, ...
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Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, melted down to create new art - CNN
The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down.