EVENTS PROGRAMS LECTURES
February 25th, 2025
Members of the Natchez Historical Society gathered to hear Paula C. Johnson’s talk on Racial Justice through Memory, Memorials, Knowledge, and Empowerment
January 28, 2025 (Annual Meeting)
Matthew Skic, Curator of Exhibitions, Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Muskets Along the Mississippi: The Revolutionary War in the West.
November 26, 2024 Program
Yvonne Lewis Day, Editor, Columnist, Researcher, and Author: Who Will Sing My Name? The Loss of the Steamboat Monmouth.
October 22, 2024 Program: The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots presented by Peter Wolf
September 24, 2024 Program: Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era presented by Mike Bunn
May. 28, 2024 Program:
Erasing Slavery - How Stories of Slavery and Freedom (in Natchez) Shape Battles over the Constitution presented by Dr. Ariela Gross
Apr. 23, 2024 Program:
Outliving the White Lie, a Southerner's Historical Genealogical, and Personal Journey presented by James Wiggins
Feb. 27, 2024 Program:
Anne Moody's novel, Coming of Age in Mississippi. Why It Matters presented by Dr. Roscoe Barnes
Jan. 23, 2024 Annual Dinner:
Catching the Rabbit - US Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign. Presented by Dr. David Nolen Barnes.
Nov. 2, 2023 Special Program:
Luc Borms, Historian and musician on the Blues and the Mississippi Delta
Oct 24, 2023 program:
The mysteries of naturalist, John J Audubon’s landscape painting of Natchez, presented by Mimi Miller
Sept. 26, 2023 program:
Murder on Pretty Creek - Stunning Revelations on an
Old Case presented by Stanley Nelson
May 23, 2023 Program:
Natchez Massacre and Ground Zero for Slavery presented by Jessica Crawford
Feburary 28 2023 Program:
The Road to 'A Raisin in the Sun': The Link Between the Hansberry Family of Gloster, Mississippi, and Alcorn A&M Collegepresented by Dr. J. Janice Coleman
March 28, 2023 Program:
Mississippi's Museum of Art's Upcoming 2023 Solo Show featuring the recent work of artist Noah Satterstrom presented by Dr. Megan Hines
April 25 2023 Program:
An Early 20th Century Team of Natchez Trailblazers, Ethel Clagget and Mabel Porter presented by Judy Wiggins
Jan. 26, 2023 Annual Dinner: John James Audubon in Natchez presented by Danny Heitman
September 27 2022 Program:
Please Don't Tear It Down--22 Years of the 10 Most Endangered Historical Places in Mississippi presented by Lolly Rash
October 25 2022 Program:
The Jewish History of Mississippi presented by Dr. Stuart Rockoff
November 28 2022 Program:
Hernando De Soto and the First European Contact With the Mississippian Civilization of the Lower Mississippi Valley presented by Dr. Max Grivno
May 24 2022 Program:
Enslavement to Enlistment: Profiles of the Men of the 58th Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops presented by Jeff Mansell