I've seen a lot of beautiful things in my life. I've been in the Sagrada Familia and The Louvre. I've seen Vienna and I've seen Bangkok. I've been at Copan and I've been at Ayutthaya. I've been in the deserts of New Mexico and I've...
robert e. lee
Well, at least something good happened today. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed.Virginia Gov..
Activist with the Dallas Peace Center stand by a statue of General Robert E. Lee during a protest at Lee Park Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Dallas. John Fullinwider, the.
Ralph Northam's past may be, uh, racially problematic, but he's certainly making up for it now. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans Thursday for the removal of an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond鈥檚 prominent Monument Avenue, a...
This is the grave of Mary Custis Lee. Born in 1807, Mary Custis was born into the highest ranking of the Virginia elite. She was Martha Washington's great-granddaughter after all..
This is the grave of the vile traitor Robert E. Lee. There isn't much reason to provide a complete biography of someone like Lee, who is extremely well-known. So a.
This is the grave of Traveller, the horse of the traitor Lee. Traveller was born in 1857 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, which is now part of West Virginia. He won several awards in show contests in his early life. In 1861, the South committed treason...
It's just so hard to be a dead Confederate today. No one loves you anymore. No one wants to name things after treasonous slaveholders or the northern politicians who facilitated.
The University of Texas did a good thing by deciding to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from public display on campus and move it into its US history museum. But.
A good use of Congress' time in 1975. On this date, Congress voted to restore U.S. citizenship to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
On this date, in 1975. pic.twitter.com/TAZjBEN3os— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 22, 2015 I'm glad the nation can't issue a national official...
Robert E. Lee was a kind slavemaster, certainly not the type of man who represents all that was inhumane about the Confederacy: Lee married into ownership of nearly 200 slaves.
The tangle between Robert E. Lee imagery, Confederacy worship, white supremacy, and human rights is far too complex to take on in anything shorter than a three volume set (although.