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 […]
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!
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 […]
By Vikki Bynum Filming of the movie Free State of Jones is about to begin, and announcements regarding the cast are regularly appearing in movie trade papers. Renegade South learned less than […]
While perusing the Internet, I recently discovered the following 2012 essay by Daniele Watts, whose name I recognized as the actor who played the slave Coco in the movie Django Unchained. I […]
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be delivering this year’s Littlefield Lectures for the History Department of the University of Texas, Austin. The lectures are based on research from my last two […]
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 […]
Researching Civil War Home Fronts and Beyond by Vikki Bynum Back in fall, 2001, just months after the release of my book, Free State of Jones, David Woodbury (moderator of Battlefields and […]
Note from Renegade South: Vernon F. Dahmer, a well known Mississippi civil rights worker, was murdered in 1966 by white supremacists connected to the Ku Klux Klan. Before the night of January […]
Rachel Knight by Sondra Yvonne Bivins Rachel’s Children Fathered by Jesse Davis Knight Slaves had few legal rights, least of all to marry and have children. Just two years after arriving […]
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