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Confronting The Past On Nathan Bedford Forrest

Library Of Congress

Tonight on this campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the story of Nathan Bedford Forrest before the Civil War.

Timothy Huebner - a history professor at Rhodes College in Memphis - will tell that story about the Confederate General, who was born here in Tennessee.

Credit Rhodes College
Prof. Timothy Huebner

The title of tonight’s lecture - starting at 7 PM here at UTC is “Confronting the Past in Memphis:  Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Antebellum Slave Trade and the Reinvention of Civil War Memory.”

 

Ahead of his visit to Chattanooga, Professor Huebner joined us by phone from Memphis for a conversation...

  

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