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

Mississippi and Alabama are the last states to celebrate Confederate general Robert E. Lee alongside Civil Rights icon Martin ...

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.

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 ...

Grant than Confederate General Robert E ... Lee and Ann Hill Carter on January 19, 1807. Lee's father, also known as "Light-Horse Harry," had been a cavalry leader during the Revolutionary War.

Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops ...

Robert E. Lee on the federal holiday for Civil Rights leader Martin ... June 3 is when Kentucky and Tennessee honor the dead ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...