“I thought it was very interesting that a school would choose that,” said Burge, now a history teacher in ... Jim Plyler Instructional Complex. Robert E. Lee High School was opened in 1958 ...

I have a proposal for a way. It will not require you to change your mind about Robert E. Lee. But before you throw him permanently into the junkbin of history, the general may have a final lesson ...

Lee County is named after Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general in the American Civil War who eventually commanded all Confederate armies. The name came at the urging of retired Confederate Capt.

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...