LEE, ROBERT E. Robert E. Lee, 72, of Denver, a retired radio personality passed away September 3. “Bob” is survived by his wife Jane; daughter Melissa; sons Michael, Howard and “Fitz”; and ...

“Robert E. Lee Day has a nice ring to it,” an anonymous ... opinions on race have been contested and distorted since his death, but historian Eric Foner notes that Lee owned slaves and ...

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's birthday is one of three Confederate ... preferring to move on, but after his death he was lionized into a cultural icon and the central figure of "The Lost Cause," an effort ...

Robert E. Lee Day was originally celebrated by states ... the date of Alabama’s Lee Day commemoration to the date of his death, Oct. 12, the bill, sponsored by Sen. Vivian Figures in 2020 ...

But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of the Confederate ... which coincides with the month of his death. Neither bill made it to a floor vote.