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 […]
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 […]
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!
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, […]
On July 16, 2019, Dr. Priscilla Leder—my former colleague at Texas State University, and now the host of KZSM’s “Bookmarked” radio show—interviewed me and Dr. Rebecca Montgomery about the Civil War Era South, […]
By Vikki Bynum I first learned about the Red Strings—known formally as “The Heroes of America“—in 1983 while researching Civil War dissenters, deserters, and guerrilla bands in the North Carolina State Archives. The […]
I recently returned from the Spring Creek Campus of Collin College in Plano, Texas, where I delivered the keynote address, “The Free State of Jones: Class, Kinship, and Revolt in Civil War […]
I’m excited to announce that The Free State of Jones (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, 2016) is featured on the new National Humanities alliance website! The National Humanities Alliance […]
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 […]
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