Victoria Bynum to deliver Walz Lecture at Southern Arkansas University Victoria Bynum will deliver the annual Robert B. Walz Lecture in Arkansas and Regional History, 7:00 pm, Tuesday, September 19, in the […]
I urge all to read Dr. Susannah Ural’s excellent essay on Civil War monuments, posted here: Let Us Speak of What We Have Done Dr. Ural is Professor and Co-director of the […]
By Vikki Bynum I’ll never forget the excitement I felt when, in the midst of researching The Free State of Jones, I came upon the WPA’s 1936 interview with Martha Wheeler, a […]
In the following essay by Chuck Shoemake, we learn about the wretched conditions at Camp Morton, Indiana’s federal Civil War prisoner of war camp. In the course of telling the story, Chuck […]
This past week in Virginia, I discussed legendary, historical, and cinematic versions of the story of The Free State of Jones for Lynchburg College’s Civil War and Reconstruction Lecture Series. Adding immeasurably […]
By Vikki Bynum Late last year, I was contacted by Raymont Hawkins-Jones, a descendant of a family I’d written about many years earlier: the Andersons of Granville County, North Carolina. The Andersons […]
Civil War and Reconstruction Lecture Series: Dr. Victoria Bynum Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia When: April 5, 2017 @ 6:00 pm Where: Snidow Chapel 1501 Lakeside Drive Lynchburg, VA 24501 Cost: Free […]
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