By Vikki Bynum Ed Payne’s current series on Mississippi Piney Woods Civil War Unionists, “Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties,” provides a timely context for a closer look at Oquin C. Martin, a former Confederate […]
Confessions of a Small-Town Texas Gadfly
By Victoria Bynum Professor Stauffer is angry at me; I mean really angry. He’s furious that I don’t think more highly of his and Sally Jenkins’s book, State of Jones, but especially that I have […]
Setting the Record Straight for Professor Stauffer
At a recent two-day booksigning in Jones County, Mississippi, State of Jones co-author, John Stauffer, hurled some serious charges at your Renegade South moderator that must be addressed. According to the November 13, 2009, online edition of […]
Ingrid Leverett responds to Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer’s book, State of Jones.
I received the following email message on Sunday from Ingrid Leverett, the daughter of historian Rudy Leverett, author of The Legend of the Free State of Jones (University of Mississippi Press, 1984). […]
Jonathan Odell on Rachel Knight and Mixed-Race relationships in the Post-Civil War South
Jonathan Odell has written extensively about his native state of Mississippi and is the author of the novel, The View From Delphi. The following post was adapted from comments Jon made on Kevin […]
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 […]
Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer respond to my reviews of their book
The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy (Doubleday, 2009) Those of you who have read my three-part review of State of Jones, by Sally Jenkins and […]
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