In this exclusive excerpt from an exhaustive and vigorous new history, the blues, the cotton business, and an old barn reveal ...

One of Rutherford County's most keen silent observers, a 176-year-old dying tree, may be resurrected on the Courthouse square ...

Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day ...

State officials removed the sculpture of confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, from the State Capitol in Nashville and sent it to the Tennessee State Museum.

He spoke sympathetically of a good friend, a black attorney in Memphis, who felt “real pain” when passing the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest, “this ex-slave trader” and leader of the Ku ...

There are big goings-on these days at the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. It all started this past May when the ...

Even before that, we find out that Forrest’s sainted Momma named him after one of their ancestors, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Tennessee Three became nationally known after gun control protest in the wake of the deadly Covenant School shooting in ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest. In the interim, the commission also voted along with other state boards to allow a bust of Forrest to be removed from the state Capitol. A motion to allow a name change did ...

By Kwame Anthony Appiah 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. By Maria Cramer The ...

It’s the birthplace of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who helped found the Ku Klux Klan. And it’s the home of ...

An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...