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The Florida of My Youth: Hurricane Fears and Atom Bomb Solutions – Renegade South
By Vikki Bynum My forthcoming book, Deep Roots, Broken Branches, contains two chapters about my childhood in Tampa, Florida, from 1952 to 1958. In those chapters, I mention sunny days and long vacations at gorgeous beaches, but nowhere do I discuss hurricanes. Quite simply, although hurricanes threatened Florida throughout these years, none touched down in…
Book Sale at University Press of Mississippi Website – Renegade South
If you haven't preordered my forthcoming book, Deep Roots, Broken Branches, and would like to, it's available at 50% off during the University Press of Mississippi's website sale! The sale runs from June 11 to June 21, and every book is discounted. Shipping is free if your order totals $60 or more, so be sure…
Deep Roots, Broken Branches: A History and Memoir, by Victoria Bynum – Renegade South
I'm excited to post this very first advertisement of my forthcoming book from The University Press of Mississippi! Deep Roots, Broken Branches is scheduled for release in February 2025 and available for preorder at a reduced price. https://www.facebook.com/victoria.bynum.14/posts/pfbid02mVzhrwEUq5p9c9NLE5xUHK1EQnW6gocgXLLDThy88jctHhhbXBUu1HGwoNjjJhpAl?comment_id=3444944985808794¬if_id=1716501129059090¬if_t=feed_comment&ref=notif
Jared Frederick’s Reel History discusses the movie, Free State of Jones – Renegade South
Historians Jared Frederick, host of Reel History, and Rich Condon analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the movie Free State of Jones. One of its greatest strengths, they agree, is the portrayal of post-Civil War "national reconciliation" as a tragedy that enabled pro-Confederates to destroy Mississippi's fragile class and race-based era of Reconstruction and return…
The Free State of Jones on the podcast, “2 Complicated 4 History” – Renegade South
Below you'll find my interview with Isaac S Loftus and Dr. Lynn Price Robbins, interviewers for the new podcast, "2 Complicated 4 History," about the story and movie "The Free State of Jones." A lively recap of the interview by podcast producers Jordan Sloane and Patrick Long, as well as Dr. Robbins, discusses historical accuracy…
Gregg Andrews: “What the Mississippi River Means to Me” – Renegade South
At an awards ceremony inside the beautiful historic St. Louis Mercantile Library on April 6, 2023, I was honored to join the list of distinguished recipients of the James V. Swift Medal for excellence in maritime literature. Sara Hodge, Curator of the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, presented me with the Medal for…
Marvin Tupper Jones to speak on North Carolina’s Chowanoke History – Renegade South
Renegade South is pleased to announce this upcoming lecture on the indigenous people of present-day Hertford County!--VB "When I was in my twenties, my mother told me that we were descended from an Indian leader named John Robins. Much later, I discovered more about John Robins, the people he led and that I grew up…
Oma Stanley Smith (Bynum), A Father’s Day Remembrance – Renegade South
by Vikki Bynum Adopted in 1918 at age five months by his cousin Bertie Bynum Smith and her husband Sollie, my father did not meet his biological father and siblings until age sixteen after running away from his home near Poplarville to his birthplace of Jones County, Mississippi. An earlier post tells of Dad's adoption.…
Gregg Andrews, “Shantyboat Rose,” from Lost River Stories – Renegade South
So pleased to post Gregg's latest essay from his Lost River Stories blog---and delighted to serve as his illustrator! ---Vikki Bynum When I first came across twenty-two-year-old Rose (Steimel) Mosenthein in my research, she and about fifty others were being evicted by police and waterfront developers from a section of St. Louis’s humble shantyboat community…
The Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance meets with Victoria Bynum – Renegade South
On June 26, 2022, I joined the Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance via zoom to discuss the Free State of Jones and more. In this video of the event, I provide a PowerPoint presentation of Newt Knight's leadership of Mississippi's guerrilla band of pro-Union deserters, his relationship with his grandfather's slave, Rachel, and the…
The “74 Interview” with Howard University Professor Daryl Scott on “Grievance History” education – Renegade South
https://www.the74million.org/article/the-74-interview-howard-historian-daryl-scott-on-grievance-history-the-1619-project-and-the-possibility-that-we-rend-ourselves-on-the-question-of-race/?fbclid=IwAR3WnOJJXaMln43pfUQkpg6KeW0YNTgUbnHtWwsLXhzA0B6IB0YiQ6YXrY0
From Gregg Andrews’ Blog, Lost River Stories – Renegade South
Black River Roustabouts, Lost and Found Roustabouts in St. Charles County, Missouri, ca. 1880. John J. Buse Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri Photograph Collection. In January 1882, John Woodson, a twenty-two-year-old Black roustabout from Hannibal, Missouri, drowned near Hanging Rock, Ohio, while working on the sternwheeler John L. Rhoads, an elegant Pittsburgh & St. Louis…
The Tragic Circumstances of the Death of a Nansemond Girl Named Frankey Anderson – Renegade South
By Kianga Lucas of Native American Roots Thank you, Kianga, for this wonderful history of Frankey Anderson's death! I came across this case in the Granville County, North Carolina, court records around 1982, but lacked the knowledge of Granville's mixed-ethnic people to properly analyze it. I'm excited to learn the full circumstances of Frankey's death!…
Marvin Tupper Jones on the History of the Chowanokes of North Carolina – Renegade South
Renegade South is pleased to announce that Marvin Tupper Jones will lecture on North Carolina's Chowanoke History on Tuesday, October 4, 11:30 am, at the Roanoke Chowan Community College in Ahoskie NC! "Last month's talk in Elizabeth City," he writes, "caught a lot of attention and even garnered a magazine article." (To review the earlier presentation, click…
Gregg Andrews on growing up in the Mississippi River Bottoms – Renegade South
GREGG ANDREWS: "I would like to thank Dean Klinkenberg for inviting me to appear as a guest on his Mississippi Valley Traveler Podcast. If you have time, here's an audio and accompanying transcript of the interview. . . .about my riverbank childhood in the Monkey Run bottoms south of Hannibal. We covered a range of…