This week marks the anniversary of Robert E. Lee's surrender near the end of the Civil War. Southern California, part of a free state from its beginning, held profound Confederate sentiment in the 1860s and beyond.
West Point over its holiday break will remove a portrait of Robert E. Lee in Confederate uniform as well as a bust of the general from prominent spots on campus, carrying out directives that were included in a defense authorization bill for 2021. Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland announced these steps and more in a…
Before turning against the U.S. military to command the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee served as the superintendent of West Point, the hallowed military academy that produced patriots like Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower. The moves are part of a Department of Defense directive issued in October ordering the academy to address racial injustice and do away with installations that “commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy.”
Pennsylvania's Republican candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, is facing criticism for a years-old photo in which he wore a Civil War Confederate uniform.
Allies of the GOP gubernatorial candidate pointed to Mastriano s background as a historian and Gettysburg guide. Others said it disqualifies him from office.