Sept 24, 2024

Mike Bunn, Director of Historic Blakeley State Park, Spanish Fort, Alabama; Historian; and
Author: Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's
Revolutionary Era.

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May 23, 2023

Jessica Fleming Crawford to discuss "Natchez Massacre and

Ground Zero for Slavery"

 

April 25, 2023
Judy Wiggins, "An Early 20th Century Team of Natchez Trailblazers, Ethel Clagget and Mabel Porter."
 

March 28, 2023
Dr. Megan Hines, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mississippi Museum of Art and Millsaps College, and Curator of the Museum's Upcoming 2023 Solo Show featuring the recent work of artist Noah Satterstrom.
 

February 28, 2023
J. Janice Coleman, Professor of English, Alcorn State University, "The Road to 'A Raisin in  the Sun':  The Link Between the Hansberry Family of Gloster, Mississippi, and Alcorn A&M College."

January 24, 2023--Annual Meeting
The Natchez Historical Society held its 2023 annual dinner at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the Natchez Grand Hotel.  Danny Heitman, a nationally recognized writer on John James Audubon, was the featured speaker.  His topic was "John James Audubon in Natchez:  How a Fabled River Town Shaped His Life and Art."  Heitman's book on Audubon is entitled: "A Summer of Birds - John James Audubon at Oakley House" (2008 LSU Press).
The Annual Historical Award was presented to Stanley Nelson.  For details click here:   Awards.
 

November 22, 2022
Dr. Max Grivno of the History Faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi, "Hernando De Soto and the First European Contact With the Mississippian Civilization of the Lower Mississippi Valley."

 

 

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.

February 25, 2025
Paula C. Johnson, Professor, Syracuse University College of Law; Co-Founder and Director of
the Syracuse University College of Law Cold Case Justice Initiative: Memory Lessons: Meeting
the Imperative for Racial Justice Through Memory, Memorials, Knowledge, and Empowerment.

March 25, 2025
Judy Wiggins, Retired Humanities Coordinator and English Instructor, Copiah-Lincoln
Community College: A Will of Her Own, Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820.

April 22, 2025
Dr. Christian Pinnen, Professor of History and Co-Director of African American Studies,
Mississippi College: Complexion of Empire in Natchez: Race and Slavery in the Mississippi
Borderlands.

May 27, 2025
Smokye Joe Frank, Retired Archeologist and Local Historian: Tracking the Tracks: The Natchez
& Hamburg Railroad and the Locomotive Mississippi.