The following announcement of Mahershala Ali’s reading of the Audible version of my book, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, is excerpted from Business Wire. NOTE: The movie, The Free […]
The New Audible Version of Free State of Jones Debuts!
The new Audible version of The Free State of Jones–with Mahershala Ali (who plays Moses Washington in the movie of the same name) narrating the text and me narrating the preface […]
Marvin T. Jones to Speak on Civil War Unionists in Washington, DC.
Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Organization, is the author of one of Renegade South’s most popular essays, “The Chowan Discovery Group,” a history of the mixed-race origins of […]
A Timely Visit to The Free State of Jones
By Vikki Bynum As announced in an earlier post, on March 4, 2016, I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote address before the annual meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society. […]
Release of “Free State of Jones” by Duckworth Publishers, UK London
By Vikki Bynum I’m excited to announce today’s release of The Free State of Jones by Duckworth Publishers of the UK! The same content appears in the University of North Carolina’s movie […]
Did Slaves and Deserters make Common Cause during the Civil War?
By Vikki Bynum In a recent interview with historian Megan Kate Nelson for the Journal of the Society of Civil War Historians, Megan and I discussed my perspective on the upcoming movie, […]
An Important Archival Discovery: 1864 Letter describes Free State of Jones
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News flash: While conducting Civil War research at the National Archives, historian Adam Domby recently discovered a letter from Chattanooga, Tennessee, that provides a striking contemporary description of Jones County deserters and […]
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