Victoria E. Bynum

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.[1]

Victoria E. Bynum
Occupationhistorian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California Ph.D.
ThesisUnruly women: the relationship between status and behavior among free women of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1840-1865 (1987)
Academic work
InstitutionsTexas State University

Career

Victoria E. Bynum received her BA at Chico State University in 1979, and her MA and 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] In 1986, she joined the Department of History at Southwest Texas State University.[3]

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.[4][5] Bynum sold the rights to the book to Universal Studios in 2007.[6] 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.[6]

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.[7]

Works

Books
  • Bynum, V.E. (2010). The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-9821-5. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  • Bynum, V.E. (2003). The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War. Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5467-9. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  • 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, V.E. (2016). Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. Gender and American Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-1699-5. Retrieved 2023-09-07.

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. "Bynum, Victoria". Texas State University. 2021-11-19. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  4. 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.
  5. Blow, Charles (June 27, 2016). "White Savior, Rape and Romance?". New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  6. Cieply, Michael (July 29, 2009). "Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout". New York Times. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  7. "We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued the 1619 Project". New York Times. January 19, 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.


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