The Free State of Jones & An Afternoon With Professor Victoria E. Bynum
Attend this special joint Zoom presentation by the Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance and learn the fantastic path Professor Bynum took to investigate this remarkable true story of the Free State of Jones. Victoria’s program will include an interview, a PowerPoint presentation, and a questions & answer session. Professor Bynum will also discuss her other works: Unruly Women and The Long Shadow of the Civil War.

Professor Victoria E. Bynum
Victoria Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University, San Marcos. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. A scholar of class, gender, race relations in the Civil War Era South, she is an award-winning author and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow. Her book, The Free State of Jones (UNC Press, 2001, 2016), inspired the movie, The Free State of Jones (STX Entertainment, 2016). Other publications include Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South (UNC Press, 1992) and The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies (UNC Press, 2010). She is the creator and administrator of the blog, Renegade South.