2024
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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Sept. 26. Stanley Nelson, Retired Editor of the “Concordia Sentinel”, Author, and Participant in the Cold Case Project of the LSU School of Journalism: Murder on Pretty Creek - Stunning Revelations on an Old Case.
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Oct. 24. Mimi Miller, Executive Director Emerita, Historic Natchez Foundation: John James Audubon’s Sojourn in Natchez and the Landscape Painting, “View of Natchez”.
Nov. 2. Luc Borms, Musicologist and Musician: The Mississippi Blues - When Patterns Are Broken, New Worlds Emerge (Jointly Sponsored with Natchez Literary & Film Festival and Natchez Festival of Music).
Nov. 28. Peter Wolf, History Author: The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots.
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2023
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JANUARY 23 2024 - Annual Dinner and Meeting Please reserve early
Dr. David Nolen, Professor and Associate Dean for Archives and Special Collections at Mississippi State University and former Librarian of its Grant Library: Catching the Rabbit - U.S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign.
Grand Hotel, Natchez
Social at 5:30
Dinner at 6:30
Program at 7:00
Please make your reservations on the button below. If you wish to make reservations and pay by check, please call or email us
​Reservation deadline is January 14
Feb. 27. Dr. Roscoe Barnes, Cultural Heritage Tourism Manager, Visit Natchez: Ann Moody’s Novel, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Why It Matters.
Mar 26. Dr. Max Grivno, Associate Professor, School of Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi: Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Period - The Natchez and Their Neighbors.
Apr. 23. James Wiggins, Historian and Author: Outliving the White Lie - A Southerner’s Historical, Genealogical, and Personal Journey.
May 28. Dr. Ariela Gross, Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law: Erasing Slavery - How Stories of Slavery and Freedom (in Natchez) Shape Battles Over the Constitution.
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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.
2022
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."
October 25, 2022
Dr. Stuart Rockoff, Executive Director, Mississippi Humanities Council, "The Jewish History of Mississippi."
September 27, 2022
Lolly Rash, Executive Director of the Mississippi Heritage Trust, "Please Don't Tear It Down--22 Years of the 10 Most Endangered Historical Places in Mississippi."
May 24, 2022
Jeff Mansell, Lead Historian, Natchez National Historical Park, on "Enslavement to Enlistment: Profiles of the Men of the 58th Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops."
April 26, 2022
Rescheduled January speaker Professor David S. Nolen of Mississippi State University on "How Did Ulysses S. Grant's Papers Land in Mississippi?"
March 22, 2022
Anna E. Tucker, Curator of the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience based in New Orleans, "From Under-the-Hill to B'nai Israel: Uncovering the Jewish Foundations of Natchez."
February 15, 2022
Natchez Alderwoman Valencia Hall on the History of Holy Family Catholic Church.
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