Lawmakers and advocates alike have condemned the presence of Confederate holidays in Alabama’s state calendars ... Lee, a Confederate general who enslaved about 10 to 15 people during his ...

The next holiday on the calendar is on the opposite end of the political spectrum. The 2022 Florida Statutes recognizes Thursday Jan. 19, the birthday of Confederate general Robert E. Lee ...

The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond ...

Robert E. Lee Day was created in 1889 to commemorate the life of the Confederate general on his Jan. 19 birthday. The holiday was celebrated in various Southern states, including Alabama and ...

As Elizabeth R. Varon observes in Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, her compelling new biography of James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee’s second in command, the Lost Cause ...