by Victoria Bynum, author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War It’s been forty years since I first saw the name “Newton Knight” in the footnotes of a […]
Why I’m excited about the movie “The Free State of Jones”
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, […]
The Free State of Jones: My Keynote address to the Mississippi Historical Society
by Vikki Bynum Make no mistake—those who write about and those who just plain love Mississippi history were excited this past week to learn more about The Free State of Jones! On […]
Read all about it: the Movie Edition of the book “Free State of Jones”
By Vikki Bynum From the cover of the Movie Edition of The Free State of Jones: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the […]
Lone Star Unionism: Warren J. Collins profiled in New Civil War Anthology
By Vikki Bynum Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas, the much-anticipated anthology edited by distinguished historian Jesus F. de la Teja,* makes its debut from the […]
Here it is: The Official “Free State of Jones” Movie Trailer!
By Vikki Bynum I enjoyed watching the Free State of Jones trailer yesterday, and I know from reading my email and comments on Facebook that many of you did, too! Not only […]
The Free State of Jones Movie to be released June 24, 2016
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Announcing the Movie Edition of the book, The Free State of Jones
Renegade South is pleased to introduce the second edition of The Free State of Jones! Not only does this “movie edition” sport a snazzy new cover, I’ve also written a new afterword […]
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