Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Forrest Hall

MTSU students to speak at Tennessee Historical Commission meeting about Forrest Hall

Featured Photo from Noah McLane Story by Noah McLane MTSU students will give public comment Friday, April, 19 at a Tennessee Historical Commission meeting in regard to MTSU’s appeal of a...

MTSU has initial hearing with Tennessee Historical Commission in second attempt to rename Forrest Hall

Featured Photo by Noah McLane Story by Noah McLane Middle Tennessee State University continued its efforts to change the name...

Why, in 2023, does MTSU still have a building named after a Confederate icon?

Story and photo by Noah McLane Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, still holds...

Renaming Forrest Hall: An Update

Story by Matthew Giffin | News Editor Four years after the Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University’s...

Board Backs McPhee in Renaming Forrest Hall

On Tuesday, the Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to "support efforts to gain permission...

Persecution and progress: A look at Rutherford County’s troubled past of hate crimes, racism

Story by Madeline Quinby / Studio M  History shows Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, Tennessee, are not strangers to hate crime. From when the Ku Klux...

Tennessee Historical Commission denies MTSU’s petition to rename Forrest Hall

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor  / MTSU Sidelines Archive  After a rigorous hearing in the William R. Snodgrass Building in Nashville on Friday, the Tennessee...

Forrest Hall: McPhee requests name change from Tennessee Historical Commission 

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor / Editor-in-Chief  MTSU President Sidney McPhee requested that the Tennessee Historical Commission change the name of Forrest Hall late Tuesday...

Forrest Hall: MTSU yet to request name change from Tennessee Historical Commission

Despite the task force's recommendation being endorsed by University President Sidney McPhee and the Tennessee Board of Regents, MTSU has not yet requested that...

Forrest Hall name change endorsed by the TBR

The Tennessee Board of Regents approved a name change of Forrest Hall Friday afternoon, sending the decision to the Tennessee Historical commission. After the Forrest...

Q-and-A: Why President McPhee supports the name change of Forrest Hall

After accepting the Forrest Hall Task Force's recommendation this morning, MTSU President Sidney McPhee sat down with Sidelines to explain how he came to support the...