Florida legally observes Confederate Memorial Day, along with the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, but these ...

The case of one of the famous moments in American history—Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, ...

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... commemoration of the Confederate states and move it to museums and history books. Confederate monuments have been removed, nine military ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

The city witnessed a bitter controversy over the removal of a Confederate statue in Travis Park in 2017. It's been in storage ...

Ethan Hill Anne Kelly Knowles loves places where history happened ... fresh light on hoary historical debates—What was Robert E. Lee thinking at Gettysburg?—and navigated new and difficult ...

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 ...

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones of Portland ... In an interview as part of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Oral History, Jones called himself a “real judicial antique.” ...

“The National Park Service has been entrusted with preserving local history, celebrating local ... Historical Park in Virginia, where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces in April 1865 ...

Far too many people view Black history in the U.S. that way — not ... as intrusions on a perverse hero story about Davis or Robert E. Lee being slightly misguided defenders of liberty, not ...

In the noonday heat of July 11, 1864, the commander of the battle-hardened II Corps of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern ... And now here he was, on the brink of history, about to quench the ...