Lee-Jackson Day is a state holiday in Virginia on the Friday before Martin Luther King Day to honor both Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In Georgia, they commemorate Lee's birthday on the day after Thanksgiving, which is a state holiday in another 22 states, and is on ...
Robert E. Lee as it was hoisted from its pedestal and taken — at least for now — to storage. The statue's removal came more than five years after racial justice activists had renewed a push to take down the monument, an initiative that drew the attention of white supremacist...
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were Anti-Slaveryetatsunis
Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Tecumseh Sherman the lecture describes the Union General George McClellan's abortive 1862 Peninsula campaign, which introduced the world to Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The lecture concludes with Confederate General Robert E. Lee...
Louisiana in 2022 struck Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of official state holidays. Virginia in 2020 scrapped a holiday honoring Lee and Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, both natives of the state, to make Election Day a state holiday. ...
Lee-Jackson Day honored two Confederate generals and was celebrated the Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Robert E. Lee:Robert E. Lee was the fourth son of the famous Revolutionary calvary commander, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and the nephew of Richard Henry Lee (Virginian delegate to the Second Continental Congress that made the motion for independence on June 7, 1776). Due to a lack of...
George F. Hemphill and Leonore A. Winters, Christopher and Alexandra Middendorf, and the Middendorf Gallery; 16 objects given in 1996 by John Cohen; six objects given in 2000 by Jane Watkins; one object given in 2001 by Lee and Maria Friedlander; and 20 objects given in 2010 by the Estate...
("Stonewall") Jackson's relations with Robert E. Lee and the two men's talents. The interpretative pendulum has swung back in their favor. Christian B. Keller has produced a detailed study of their exploits that is likely to have wide appeal. He makes a persuasive case for the consonance...
and Jesus| Robert E. LeeJefferson DavisStonewall Jacksonand the archetypes of American masculinity MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY Jason K. Phillips StrawbridgeWilm KirkI interpret Civil War romanticism by looking at well-known archetypal characters such as the knight, the Puritan, and the Christ figure....