At the state archives I found the testimony of a wife about the killing of her [Unionist] husband. He was shot while plowing . . . . A man walked up, squatted […]
Remembering William T. Auman, Civil War Historian
Announcement: The Upcoming Littlefield Lectures at the University of Texas, Austin
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 […]
Southerners Against Slavery: Wesleyan Methodists in Montgomery County, North Carolina
In two of my works on Southern Unionism, Unruly Women (1992), and Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010), I wrote extensively about the effects of the anti-slavery Wesleyan Methodist movement in […]
Announcements: a past interview; an upcoming presentation; the Knight-Booth Family Reunion
Interview by Wisconsin Public Radio This has been a busy week, and the upcoming week will be even more so! As part of Wisconsin Public Radio’s observation of the 150 year anniversary of the Civil War, […]
Phebe Crook and the Inner Civil War in North Carolina
Note from Moderator: Phebe Crook belonged to the same North Carolina community of Unionist women that I’ve been researching and writing about for 25 years, as did Martha Sheets and Caroline, Sarah, and Clarinda […]
Paul Escott Reviews Bynum, Long Shadow of the Civil War
I am delighted to post historian Paul Escott’s review of my new book, recently published on H-Net’s Civil War forum! Vikki Bynum, moderator http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=29769 Victoria E. Bynum. The Long Shadow of the […]
Announcement: My upcoming talk for the Moncure Conway Foundation
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 […]
Moncure Conway, Southern Abolitionist
by Vikki Bynum 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 […]
Near and Distant Pasts Revisited: My 2001 interview by David Woodbury
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 […]
Renegade South 