Lee instead. Alabama and Mississippi have recognized Robert E. Lee Day as a state holiday since the early 1900s, later combining it with the federal celebration of King, which President Ronald ...

West Point graduate Robert E. Lee of Virginia was such a celebrated warrior during the U.S.-Mexico War that his former mentor, Gen. Winfield Scott, asked him to lead Union forces against the ...

A 274-year-old plantation along the Combahee River in Beaufort County with ties to Robert E. Lee and Frank Lloyd Wright recently sold for $9 million. The 1,851-acre Old Combahee Plantation had ...

When you see the face of General Robert E. Lee, what do you see ... not find a swastika in Germany unless it’s in a Holocaust Museum. They are enemies of the state. Why are we putting them ...

Robert E. Lee that was at the center of the deadly ... including in New York City and at West Point.

It is believed to be a time capsule from 1829, the year a cadet from Virginia named Robert E. Lee graduated from West Point. In late May, crews were disassembling the cracking base of the monument ...

The first to go will be Robert E. Lee, who also served as superintendent ... removed from the library and put in storage at the West Point Museum. A stone bust of the southern general will be ...

West Point has begun removing Confederate monuments at the campus — including a portrait of Robert E. Lee, who once served ... History, and Museum Committee will propose new names for streets ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is starting to remove Confederate ... including an immediate plan to move a portrait of Robert E. Lee wearing a Confederate uniform into storage.

More than a half-dozen of the commission’s recommendations for West Point involve Lee, who graduated second in his class in 1829 and later served as superintendent. The commission recommended ...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is right to begin removing installations memorializing Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders. This is not to say that all public statues or memorials ...

Nearly a century after it was built, two neon signs with Robert E ... neon signs on both the east and west towers — emblazoned “Hotel Robt. E. Lee, Air-Conditioned” — were added ...