academic Work

nathan bedford forrest

Book Manuscript (in progress)

• “Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory”: this book, currently under contract, examines the public memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest

Selected publications on N.B. Forrest

• “Remembering Fort Pillow,” We’re History (refereed academic blog), published online, 2018

• “‘The Most Man in the World’: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Cult of Masculinity in the South.” In Trent Watts, ed., White Masculinity in the Recent South, LSU Press, 2008

• “Nathan Bedford Forrest and Violence in the New South,” The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Volume 19: Violence), University of North Carolina Press

• “The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest,” Journal of Southern History, 2001

Selected Papers/Presentations on N.B. Forrest

• “Confronting a Post-Forrest Landscape: Memphis and the Removal of Nathan Bedford Forrest,” Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting (2020)

• “Exhuming Forrest: Race and Memory in a Changing South,” University of Central Florida (2016)

• “Reconstructing Forrest: Race, Memory, and the Cultural Landscape of the Modern South,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, (2010)

• “Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Culture of Violence in the Modern South,” 35th Annual Great Lakes Conference (2010)

• “Thomas Nast, Bedford Forrest, and the Election of 1868,” American Cultural Association/Popular Cultural Association Conference (2000)

   

media

Recent Appearances

• On Public Monuments: Texas Monthly

• On N. B. Forrest: Washington Post

• On N. B. Forrest: VICE

• On N.B. Forrest: American Rambler (listen here)