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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Lee and Grant Exhibit\nEvent Url: http://www.artsho
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 6-06\nEvent Date End: 2009-09-20\n\nIn May 2009\, the Museum of Southern H
 istory at Houston Baptist Universit will welcome a unique traveling exhibi
 t\, Lee and Grant. The exhibit will be on public display June 6 - Septembe
 r 20.\nThe exhibition provides a major reassessment of the lives\, careers
 \, and historical impact of Civil War generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S
 . Grant. The exhibit charts the development of historical thought and popu
 lar attitudes toward these significant historical figures in the years sin
 ce the outbreak of the Civil War.  The exhibition was organized by the Vir
 ginia Historical Society\, in partnership with the New-York Historical Soc
 iety\, Washington and Lee University\, the Museum of the Confederacy\, the
  Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum\, Arlington House&mdash\;The Ro
 bert E. Lee Memorial\, and Stratford Hall&mdash\;The Birthplace of Robert 
 E. Lee.\n'Visitors will enjoy discovering similarities and differences bet
 ween Lee and Grant that are rarely pointed out\,' said Dr. William M. S. R
 asmussen\, exhibition co-curator and the VHS Lora M. Robins Curator. 'Thes
 e generals have been explored by historians for decades\, but Lee and Gran
 t is the first exhibition to present the two men together so that visitors
  can make decisions about them\, side by side\, based on facts. We hope th
 at after they view Lee and Grant\, visitors will give more thought to the 
 legacies of both generals.'\nLee and Grant is made possible with the gener
 ous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the E. Rhodes
  and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. The exhibition presents photographs\, 
 paintings\, prints\, sculpture\, clothing and accoutrements owned by the t
 wo men\, documents written in their own hands\, and biographical and histo
 rical records to reveal each man in his historical and cultural context an
 d to review the ways each has been remembered for almost ' years.\nLee and
  Grant exhibition highlights include: Grant's handwritten terms of surrend
 er to Lee on April 9\, 1865\; a 1772 oil on canvas painting of George Wash
 ington owned by Mrs. Lee\; a December 29\, 1862 deed of emancipation signe
 d by Lee\; an 1885 original of Grant's Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant\; th
 e coat and sword of Lee before 1864\; a 1782 oil on canvas portrait of Lig
 ht-Horse Harry Lee by Charles Wilson Peale\; an 1838 oil on canvas paintin
 g by William Edward West of Lee in his Lieutenant of Engineers dress unifo
 rm\; and Lee's signed copy of his father's Funeral Oration on the Death of
  General Washington.  Click here for more highlights from this exhibit.\n'
 This exhibition is more than a study of Lee and Grant\,' Rasmussen said. '
 These generals have come to symbolize the two regions that fought the Civi
 l War-- each was a product of his region and his rearing. When we investig
 ate the values that they championed and their decisions which literally ch
 anged the course of this country's history\, we discover the sectional leg
 acies that many contemporary Americans have inherited from southern gentry
  and from Yankee self-made man.'\nClick here for some interesting facts ab
 out these two men.\nThe Museum of Southern History is one of five stops th
 e Lee and Grant exhibit will make. After closing at the VHS on March 31\, 
 2008\, Lee and Grant traveled to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Lo
 uis (May 17\, 2008&ndash\;September 7\, 2008)\; and then traveled to the N
 ew-York Historical Society in New York City (October 17\, 2008&ndash\;Marc
 h 29\, 2009)\; the Museum of Southern History in Houston (May 23\, 2009&nd
 ash\;September 20\, 2009)\; and the Atlanta History Center (November 7\, 2
 009&ndash\;February 28\, 2010).\nThe Lee and Grant Exhibit is made possibl
 e with generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and t
 he W. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Its presentation in Housto
 n is sponsored by the Joella and Stewart Morris Foundation which also prov
 ided funding for the exhibition catalog\, a 352-page illustrated book c0-a
 uthored by the exhibit's curator.\n\nStart time: The Houston exhibition op
 ens to the public on Saturday\, June 6 at 10:00 a.m.\nDaily museum hours a
 re: \n10:00 a.m. &ndash\; 4:00 p.m.\, \nMonday through Saturday.\nGroup to
 urs are available.\nThe Museum will be closed July 3 and 4 and September 7
 .
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