Why was Forrest Gump called Nathan Bedford Forrest? During the American Civil War Nathan Bedford Forrest was a notable Confederate general and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Forrest was ...

On Monday, a group of protesters went down to the Capitol and complained loudly about the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest that sits there. At one point, a protester threw his jacket over Forrest ...

When Nathan Bedford Forrest was exhumed the first time in 1904, the circumstances were considerably different.

After the Confederate Flags Come Down, Everything Named After Nathan Bedford Forrest Should Be Next The Confederate general and KKK “grand wizard” belongs on the short list of the most vile ...

The contentious Nathan Bedford Forrest statue that stood along Interstate 65 in Nashville for more than two decades was taken down Tuesday. The move comes just over a year after the owner of the ...

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest died in 1877, yet the slave trader and Klan leader still haunts the American landscape. There’s a statue of him overlooking a cemetery in Rome, Ga ...

The bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a controversial fixture in the Tennessee state Capitol since the late 1970s, is coming down. The State Building Commission on Thursday gave ...

Crews have started to remove the remains of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from a Memphis park where a monument of him once stood.

In their desire to cleanse Tennessee of statues of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, Tennessee politicians and Tennessee cities are perhaps unknowingly missing a target of opportunity to ...

Connor Towne O’Neill talks with Jane Carr about his new book, ‘Down Along With That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning With Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy,’ which tells the ...

State lawmakers voted down a bid to remove a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol. The bust has been protested since it was installed in 1978.

The remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and leader of the Ku Klux Klan, will be moved from Memphis to a Confederate museum 200 miles away.