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Gregg Andrews, “Shantyboat Rose,” from Lost River Stories

By renegadesouth on May 15, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Announcing Gregg Andrews’ new blog: Lost River Stories: Invisibles of the Mississippi Valley

By renegadesouth on April 25, 2022 • ( 7 Comments )

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 […]

“Our Southern Souls”: an interview with “Frankie” of Jones County, MS.

By renegadesouth on April 24, 2022 • ( 11 Comments )

“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 […]

Adolph Reed Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives—A Review

By renegadesouth on April 6, 2022 • ( 5 Comments )

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 […]

From the Southern Quarterly, Wtr 2017: Susannah Ural Interviews Victoria Bynum

By renegadesouth on January 15, 2022 • ( 6 Comments )

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 […]

Civil War Monitor: The Five Best Books on Civil War Guerrillas

By renegadesouth on October 9, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

New Book by Curtis Wilkie: When Evil Lived in Laurel

By renegadesouth on June 22, 2021 • ( 7 Comments )

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 […]

Revisiting the Free State of Jones on its Twentieth Anniversary!

By renegadesouth on June 4, 2021 • ( 6 Comments )

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!

Two Mississippi Museums “Many Stories” presents Newt Knight and The Free State of Jones

By renegadesouth on June 1, 2021 • ( 13 Comments )

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, […]

Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center in Hannibal, Missouri

By renegadesouth on May 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

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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From the Southern Quarterly, Wtr 2017: Susannah Ural Interviews Victoria Bynum

Revisiting the Free State of Jones on its Twentieth Anniversary!

“The State of Mississippi vs. Davis Knight” (1948): A Wolverine Theatrics Production!

The Long Shadow of the Civil War »

The Inner Civil War in Montgomery Co., N.C.

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Revisiting “The Lyons and the Landrums”: Murder and Its Consequences

A Remarkable Civil War Letter: William D. Fitzgerald, imprisoned Southern Unionist, to President Abraham Lincoln

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