On Sunday, 2 p.m., March 21, 2010, I will present “Defying Convention: Women, Race, and Class in the Civil War South,” in Falmouth, Virginia. Here is the official announcement, which Jan Coxey kindly supplied to Renegade South a […]
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Q & A Between UNC Press and Vikki Bynum
A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum Author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies Published April 15, 2010 $35.00 hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8078-3381-0 Q. There seems no […]
Just Released: “The Long Shadow of the Civil War”
I’m excited to announce that my new book, The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, has been released! Click here to see its table of contents. To purchase a […]
Part 3: Ed Payne on Jones County Widows
Nancy Pitts Walters By Ed Payne When Nancy Pitts Walters died in 1915 at the age of 82, she had the distinction of being the widow of not one but two […]
Moncure Conway, Southern Abolitionist
Figuring out the racial views of white southerners who opposed the Confederacy can be difficult. It is tempting, for example, to interpret white nonslaveholders’ economic resentment of slaveholders as evidence that they opposed slavery itself, but the two […]
Civil War Letters from North Carolina: John A. Beaman to Governor Vance
Amanda and Kelly expressed interest in seeing the following letter written to Governor Zeb Vance during the midst of the war by John A. Beaman, grandson of Valentine Moore and brother-in-law to […]
Ed Payne to speak on “Free State of Jones” before Kiwanis Club
“Free State of Jones” bumper sticker, courtesy of DeBoyd Knight Newt Knight was an important leader in Jones County’s Civil War insurrection, but he did not create Mississippi’s most famous inner civil war. Ed Payne, […]
The Legacy of Amos McLemore’s Civil War Murder: 20th Century Family Stories
There’s an interesting new blog, Across and Back, written by “Red,” a descendant of Amos McLemore who recently made an odyssey to her ancestral home of Jones County, Mississippi, to learn more […]
“Southern Communities at War” has a new title
I’m pleased to announce that my current book-in-progress has a new title. Southern Communities at War: Essays in Civil War Dissent and Its Legacies, is now The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and […]
Yvonne Bivins critiques THE STATE OF JONES, by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer
Earlier today, Yvonne Bivins sent the following comment to Renegade South. Given her extensive research and her personal connections to the Jones County Knights, I have, with her permission, converted her comment […]
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