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Robert E. Lee: Hero or Villain? Mini-Poster

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Was Robert E. Lee a Hero or Villain? YOU Be the Judge!

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History tends to judge our past leaders as extremes: Abraham Lincoln was an American hero! Benedict Arnold was a traitor! As teachers, it’s tempting at times to present a world as black and white to our students: good or evil, friend or foe, hero or villain. Use this Robert E. Lee mini-poster to help students take off the rose-colored glasses and see beyond the established historical narratives and into the real world of gray. ©2016. 11 x 17 inches. Cardstock. 

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Michael R Fauser
Robert E. Lee Villain or..Villain

I am really struggling to understand the educational value of this poster. It leaves out extraordinarily important information and frames the narrative in a way that people might actually think this man was a hero. It neglects to mention Lee owned slaves, sought to keep them past their manumission and according to first hand accounts treated them brutally. He also led an armed insurrection against his own country, aka treason, that was responsible for 500-600k deaths. I find it insulting you have one of his "Failures" as not believing freed blacks would be treated harshly after the war. I provided a few failures you should consider instead. I will use the concept of your poster to teach my students how dangerous false narratives and selective interpretation can be.

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Teacher's Discovery

Robert E. Lee: Hero or Villain? Mini-Poster

$5.99

History tends to judge our past leaders as extremes: Abraham Lincoln was an American hero! Benedict Arnold was a traitor! As teachers, it’s tempting at times to present a world as black and white to our students: good or evil, friend or foe, hero or villain. Use this Robert E. Lee mini-poster to help students take off the rose-colored glasses and see beyond the established historical narratives and into the real world of gray. ©2016. 11 x 17 inches. Cardstock. 

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