After months of debate and input from students, Robert E. Lee was selected during the December 1957 Board of Trustees meeting. The school adopted Confederate imagery, including the second largest ...

No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807.

On Sunday, Jan. 19, the state of Florida officially honors the birth of a man who led armies to fight against the United States of America. Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ...

In the late summer of 1865, a few months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising but ...

The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017.

Nearly four years after Charlottesville’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was toppled, plans are now underway to find the person or persons who will rework the bronze monument into a ...

"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who fought in the Civil War," one Georgia native said of the carvings on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...