“I thought it was very interesting that a school would choose that,” said Burge, now a history teacher in ... Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights ... Here's what you need to know about King-Lee Day and its history. Will mail be delivered? Will banks be open? Martin Luther King Jr ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

This simulation of the battle is a test to pit your decisions as Robert E. Lee against what actually ... only a bit of experimental "counterfactual" history to see what might have been, and ...

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 ...

Mississippi is one of two states that recognizes Martin Luther King Junior Day as a dual holiday, shared with Robert E. Lee.

On Thursday night, Robert E. Lee High School holds its final ... AdOthers disagree and say Lee High has too much history to be renamed. The School Advisory Committee will meet on April 5 to ...

Two U.S. states still honor Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday set aside for Civil Rights leader Martin ...