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On July 3, 1863, the Union army under the command of Gen. George Meade defeated Confederate forces commanded by Gen. Robert E ...
Mayor Bill de Blasio said he’d renew efforts to change a street named after Robert E. Lee in Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton military base — as one of his deputy mayors revealed his ance… ...
Rep. Wesley Hunt argued against removing confederate names from military bases during an appearance on"Real Time" Friday, ...
Last Wednesday, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was finally removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the old Confederacy. The statue was erected in 1890, as Jim and Jane ...
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 ...
A neighbor wondered if the 3:40 a.m. removal of the historical marker outside Lee's childhood home in Alexandria, Va., was connected to efforts to sell the property for $5.9 million.
The red, heart-shaped sculpture atop the Harmony Circle column was the first artwork to replace the statue of Confederate ...
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books in the Sunshine State after well over a century, despite numerous attempts to remove them.
The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that once stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, was secretly melted down at a ceremonial event. After both cultural and legal battles, the statue of ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was a focal point of a deadly white nationalist protest in 2017 has been melted down and will be repurposed into new works ...
Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate holidays still on the books for Florida after well over a ... (which marks the discovery of Florida in 1513 by Juan Ponce de Leon) and Flag Day.
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.