Don’t miss this much needed discussion of THE FREE STATE of JONES!—Vikki Bynum, Renegade South. The Free State of Jones A Roundtable The summer of 2016 saw the release of the […]
Project MUSE – The Free State of Jones : A Roundtable
Landrums in Gray & Blue: Conflicting Loyalties in Piney Woods Mississippi (part 3)
This is the third and final of Ed Payne’s three-part series on the Landrum family of Civil War Mississippi. To read Part 1: “The Gray,” click here. To read part 2: “The […]
Landrums in Gray & Blue: Conflicting Loyalties in Piney Woods Mississippi (part 2)
This is the second of Ed Payne’s three-part series on the Landrum family of Civil War Mississippi. To read Part 1: “The Gray,” click here. —vb Part 2: The Blue By […]
Landrums in Gray & Blue: Conflicting Loyalties in Piney Woods Mississippi
By Ed Payne Note: Nine years ago I began research on men from the Mississippi Piney Woods region who joined the Union 1st New Orleans Infantry Regiment in 1863-1864. I eventually compiled […]
Revisiting the Free State of Jones in Blacksburg, Virginia
News Flash: As I was putting the final touches on the following report, I learned that the American Historical Association has awarded the movie The Free State of Jones the John E. […]
Free Screening & Author Presentation: Free State of Jones
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg Organizations: Virginia Center for Civil War Studies The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech presents a free screening of “Free State of Jones” on Saturday, […]
Lecture Announcement: “The Free State of Jones: The Politics of Race, Class, and Memory”
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 […]
Let Us Speak of What We Have Done
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 […]
Martha Wheeler, Eye-Witness to the “Free State of Jones”
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 […]
Camp Morton: “A Black and Damning Trail”
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 […]
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