There are 9 article(s) tagged Memphis history:
The nearly 200-year-old Davies Manor marks its 50th year as a museum. Officials don’t dodge the story of 22 enslaved people who lived there, but the tour also includes light-hearted moments.
Robert Hodges, otherwise known as Prince Mongo from the planet Zambodia, has irked as many Memphians as he’s charmed throughout the years. But in an odd quirk of fate, he may well have changed Memphis history.
The worst maritime disaster in U.S. history happened on the Mississippi River near Memphis, and the Sultana Historical Preservation Society is making sure it is not forgotten.
Spouses and children and grandchildren and family histories — and genes — join us at table in spirit and stories and challenges. Just some guys ... talking about nothing and everything.
Replacing a seven-flagpole installation at the tip of Mud Island, including one that flew a Confederate flag, is among Memphis River Park Partnership's priorities for upgrades at riverfront parks.
The marker unveiled late last year offers a more detailed view of the 1830s relocation of five southwest Native American groups by treaty and by force. Most of those groups used a route that took them through Memphis, to the river's edge and west to exile.
Weekdays, Josh Whitehead serves as planning director for Memphis and Shelby County. Weekends, he writes and takes photos for his history blog that has drawn a following.
A collection of essays on the African-American struggle in Memphis by 17 historians is seen by its editors as a “powerful counter-narrative” to a more compressed history of the city.
Jimmye Pidgeon was born in Memphis in 1942 in the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, a child trafficker who used a litany of illegal and jaw-dropping tactics to obtain children. Yet as Pidgeon tells her story today, it is one of resilience, hope, perseverance and optimism.
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