So pleased to post Gregg’s latest essay from his Lost River Stories blog—and delighted to serve as his illustrator! —Vikki Bynum When I first came across twenty-two-year-old Rose (Steimel) Mosenthein in my […]
By Vikki Bynum Gregg Andrews, my husband and fellow historian, has just launched his first blog, “Lost River Stories: Invisibles of the Mississippi Valley”! Growing up in the cement company town of […]
“I was born in 1934. I’m the ninth child of 10 children. We grew up on a small farm in Jones County, Mississippi, between Laurel and Soso. In those days we heard […]
By Victoria Bynum In his new book, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. reminds readers that those born in the 1940s will soon be the last […]
An Interview with Victoria Bynum on The Free State of Jones Victoria Bynum recently visited Southern Miss to kick off the 2016-2017 University Forum with a talk on her book The […]
POSTED 9/27/2021 BY Matthew Christopher Hulbert LIBRARY OF CONGRESSTwo guerrillas stop a civilian rider to rob him in this sketch from a December 1864 issue of Harper’s Weekly. “This Mr. Wales is a cold-blooded killer. He’s […]
I’ve had a couple of Renegade South readers message me regarding Curtis Wilkie’s When Evil Lived in Laurel: The “White Knights” and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer. I highly recommend this newly-released […]
I had a wonderful evening with the Mississippi Museum of History via zoom last night! You can watch my contribution to the “Many Stories” series here!
The Many Stories presentation on Newt Knight of the Free State of Jones can be viewed directly from the Museum of Mississippi History Facebook page. Date and Showtime: Thursday, June 3, 2021, […]
If a trip to the childhood home of Mark Twain in Hannibal, Missouri, is on your spring or summer itinerary, be sure and visit Faye Dant’s phenomenal “Jim’s Journey” museum! The Center […]
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