Upcoming Lectures
September 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.
October 22, 2024
Peter M. Wolf, Author: The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole
Slave, and His Jewish Roots.
November 26, 2024
Yvonne Lewis Day, Editor, Columnist, Researcher, and Author: Who Will Sing My Name? The
Loss of the Steamboat Monmouth.
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.