David Plazas is the director of opinion and engagement for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee. Visitors to the Tennessee State Museum receive interactive history lessons that take them from the ...

NASHVILLE – The State Capitol Commission is scheduled to meet on Thursday, July 9 to vote on whether or not to remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the state capitol. The vote will take place ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Decades after the initial calls for the removal of the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust were heard, the statue now has a new home at the Tennessee State Museum. Activists, some ...

A bust of Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest and two other military leaders are to be relocated from the Tennessee Capitol to the state's history museum, the Associated ...

A bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, early Ku Klux Klan leader and slave trader, is expected to be removed from the Tennessee Capitol this week, following decades of controversy ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Workers arrived at a Tennessee park Tuesday to begin the process of digging up the remains of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and moving the former slave trader’s body ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee sent a letter Monday to members of the Tennessee Historical Commission in support of removing the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust ...

The AP reported the committee said the museum is better equipped to provide the appropriate context for the bust. The committee also stated that the interest of commemorating a long-dead historical ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A state lawmaker says he is seeking to have the legislature do away with a day honoring Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan member Nathan Bedford Forrest. Democratic ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The bust of Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest will go on display at its new spot inside the Tennessee State Museum Tuesday. Forrest's bust ...

A final hearing on relocating the bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Capitol has been postponed from Thursday until next month. The Capitol Commission's petition to move the Forrest bust, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee sent a letter today to members of the Tennessee Historical Commission in support of removing the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from the ...