There are 11 article(s) tagged Memphis history:

• May 2026

  • And one more thing: Elaborate grave markers let the dead have last word

    Stories of Stones event guides guests through historic Elmwood Cemetery, where many burial markers provide much more than names and dates.

    By Jody Callahan May 02, 2026

• January 2026

  • Ask the Memphian: What is the record snowfall in Memphis?

    The biggest snowstorm to ever hit Memphis walloped the city more than a century ago, but the city as it was in 1892 handled the storm well.

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    MLGW not expecting significant outages as Memphis dodges ice

    ‘Much more difficult today than yesterday,’ and cold temps not expected to let up this week

    By Jody Callahan January 26, 2026

• September 2025

  • Ask the Memphian: Who is Prince Mongo? And he’s from where?

    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.

    By Jody Callahan September 30, 2025

• July 2025

  • An old house filled with old stuff. A complicated past. And one thing that grosses kids out.

    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. 

    By Jody Callahan July 12, 2025

• November 2022

  • Sultana Disaster Museum to preserve tragic story in new home

    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.

    By Keely Brewer November 14, 2022

• August 2021

  • Conaway: Pretty much nothing happened. And pretty much everything.

    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.

    By Dan Conaway August 13, 2021

• February 2020

  • Seven flags over Mud Island fading into history

    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.

    By Wayne Risher February 12, 2020

• January 2020

  • Trail of Tears marker on Mud Island emerges from shadow of city’s bicentennial

    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.

    By Bill Dries January 18, 2020

• July 2019

  • Crème de Memph: Planner mines for the joy, quirks in what Memphis has built

    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. 

    By Tom Bailey July 25, 2019

• February 2019

  • Essays on Memphis ‘Black Struggle’ offer counter-narrative

    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.

    By Bill Dries February 14, 2019

• January 2019

  • Memphis Lives: Jimmye Pidgeon

    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.

    By Emily Koelsch January 26, 2019