Victoria E. Bynum

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Victoria Bynum is a historian specializing in the history of the Southern United States. She is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history at Texas State University.

Career[]

Victoria E. Bynum is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history at Texas State University.[1] She received her Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. Her Ph.D. thesis was "Unruly women : the relationship between status and behavior among free women of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1840-1865".[2]

Free State of Jones[]

Her book "Free State of Jones" on the civil war history of Jones County, Mississippi was an inspiration for the 2016 film of the same name.[3][4] Bynum sold the rights to the book to Universal Studios in 2007.[5] However, Bynum objected to a later book on the subject by John Stauffer and Sally Jenkins, based on the movie's screenplay, which gave the character of Newton Knight a motivating romance.[5]

1619 project[]

Bynum was one of the historians that criticized The 1619 Project of the New York Times, pointing out what the historians deemed to be factual errors.[6]

Works[]

Books[]

  • Bynum, Victoria E. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. ISBN 9780807833810[7]
  • Bynum, Victoria E. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (2001) 2016. ISBN 9781469627052
  • Bynum, Victoria E. Unruly Women: The Relationship between Status and Behavior Among Free Women of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1840-1865. , 1987. (Ph. D. University of California, San Diego, Department of History 1987)
  • Bynum, Victoria E. Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995. ISBN 9780807820162

Selected Articles[]

  • Bynum VE. " White Negroes" in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law. The Journal of Southern History. 1998 May 1;64(2):247-76.
  • Bynum, V., 1987. " War within a War": Women's Participation in the Revolt of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1863-1865. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, pp. 43–49.
  • Bynum, V.E., 2015. The Seduction and Suicide of Mariah Murray: A Civil War Era Tragedy. Ohio Valley History, 15(1), pp. 21–40.
  • Tate, A. and Bynum, V.E., 2011. The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. The Review of Politics, 73(1), p. 180.
  • Bynum, V.E., 2004. Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the American, 1850-2000. The Journal of Southern History, 70(2), p. 434.
  • Bynum, V.E., 2005. Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas. The Journal of American History, 92(3), p. 974.
  • Bynum, V.E., 2011. Mississippi in the Civil War: The Home Front. Southern Quarterly, 48(2), p. 137.

References[]

  1. ^ "Victoria E. Bynum". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2021-11-09.
  2. ^ Bynum, Victoria E. (1987). Unruly women : the relationship between status and behavior among free women of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1840-1865. University of California, San Diego.
  3. ^ Walsh, David; Laurier, Joanne. "An interview with Victoria Bynum, historian and author of "The Free State of Jones"". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  4. ^ Blow, Charles (June 27, 2016). "White Savior, Rape and Romance?". New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b Cieply, Michael (July 29, 2009). "Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout". New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  6. ^ "We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued the 1619 Project". New York Times. January 19, 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  7. ^ "The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacy". Publishers Weekly. April 15, 2010.


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