(AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee ...

General Lee with his generals, 1907. Courtesy: Library of Congress Letter from Robert E. Lee to Winfield Scott, written two days after his meeting with Francis Blair where he refused command of ...

Robert E. Lee. Jr., in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article.

Robert E. Lee at age 31, then a young Lieutenant of ... Eleanor "Agnes" Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Jr., and Mildred "Milly" Childe Lee. Lee is promoted to captain of engineers, and moves on to ...

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.