
Originally posted on Lost River Stories:
Here’s how a lost story from the Leaf River swamp in southeast Mississippi turned into my song, “Jones County Jubilee.” The song’s roots are in a…
Originally posted on Lost River Stories:
Here’s how a lost story from the Leaf River swamp in southeast Mississippi turned into my song, “Jones County Jubilee.” The song’s roots are in a…
Renegade South is pleased to announce that Marvin Tupper Jones will lecture on North Carolina’s Chowanoke History on Tuesday, October 4, 11:30 am, at the Roanoke Chowan Community College in Ahoskie NC! “Last […]
GREGG ANDREWS: “I would like to thank Dean Klinkenberg for inviting me to appear as a guest on his Mississippi Valley Traveler Podcast. If you have time, here’s an audio and accompanying […]
Renegade South is pleased to announce this upcoming lecture on the indigenous people of present-day Hertford County!–VB “When I was in my twenties, my mother told me that we were descended from […]
On June 26, 2022, I joined the Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance via zoom to discuss the Free State of Jones and more. In this video of the event, I provide […]
The 74 Interview: Howard Historian Daryl Scott on ‘Grievance History,’ the 1619 Project and the ‘Possibility that We Rend Ourselves on the Question of Race’
by Vikki Bynum Adopted in 1918 at age five months by his cousin Bertie Bynum Smith and her husband Sollie, my father did not meet his biological father and siblings until age […]
By Kianga Lucas of Native American Roots Thank you, Kianga, for this wonderful history of Frankey Anderson’s death! I came across this case in the Granville County, North Carolina, court records around […]
Black River Roustabouts, Lost and Found In January 1882, John Woodson, a twenty-two-year-old Black roustabout from Hannibal, Missouri, drowned near Hanging Rock, Ohio, while working on the sternwheeler John L. Rhoads, an elegant […]
I hope you’ll join us on June 26 for this discussion on Civil War dissent and The Free State of Jones!