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.

For me, a line was crossed this week when the faculty at Washington & Lee University voted to demand the school drop the second half of its name to erase its affiliation with Robert E. Lee.

Robert E. Lee was a central character in America's defining national trauma, the Civil War. These images explore other facets of his life, from the young boy coping with the abandonment of an ...

A top athlete at a Texas high school named after Robert E. Lee is helping lead a charge of students who say they will no longer wear the school’s jersey, as they do not want to represent the ...

Robert E. Lee's birthday is one of three Confederate ... Pascua Florida Day (which marks the discovery of Florida in 1513 by Juan Ponce de Leon) and Flag Day. Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day ...

New Robert E. Lee coach Eric Hudson isn’t treating mention of his predecessor as a profanity. No, not at all. Tyrone Rogers, ...

The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at the Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 as an all white school during a period of intense resistance to ...

Lee. Congress dedicated the Arlington House in 1925 to honor Robert E. Lee and his outspoken efforts to reunite the country after the Civil War. The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, connects ...

The dismantlement of the infamous Confederate monument was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - JULY 10: Workers remove a statue of ...