by Vikki Bynum “Honey, look what Mama’s got,” Naoma purred as she held up her newborn baby boy for his sister to see. Four-year-old Merle’s eyes popped open wide on this cold […]
Surrounded by Death: My Father’s Mississippi Childhood
A Historian’s Critique of the 1619 Project
By Victoria Bynum “White privilege,” “wealthy elites,” “mansplainers,” “old white people,” “ivory tower elites.” These are just a few of the epithets hurled at me and the four historians I joined in […]
Understanding the Civil War Era South from the Perspective of The Free State of Jones
On July 16, 2019, Dr. Priscilla Leder—my former colleague at Texas State University, and now the host of KZSM’s “Bookmarked” radio show—interviewed me and Dr. Rebecca Montgomery about the Civil War Era South, […]
Discussing the Free State of Jones with Keith Harris, “The Rogue Historian”
An introduction by Keith Harris, moderator of The Rogue Historian, followed by our podcast interview: Hi all – this week I am super-stoked to welcome Dr. Victoria Bynum to the show. Dr. […]
Race and Reconstruction in North Carolina: Rep. Cuffee Mayo of Granville County
By Vikki Bynum In October, 1868, and August, 1869, Rep. Cuffee Mayo of Granville County, North Carolina, gathered with a group of mostly mixed-race men to sign petitions
The Lynching of Roy Hammonds: Bowling Green, Missouri, 1921
by Gregg Andrews, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University On the evening of Friday, April 29, 1921, a frenzied white mob stormed the Chicago & Alton Railroad depot in Bowling […]
Victoria Bynum to Discuss Hollywood, the Civil War, and “The Free State of Jones” at The University of New Hampshire
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