{"id":6386,"date":"2017-09-07T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T21:22:43","slug":"author-free-state-jones-deliver-walz-lecture-sau-sept-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2017\/author-free-state-jones-deliver-walz-lecture-sau-sept-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Author of Free State of Jones<\/em> to deliver Walz Lecture at SAU on Sept. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria Bynum will deliver the annual Robert B. Walz Lecture in Arkansas and Regional History at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 19, in Southern Arkansas University\u2019s Reynolds Center Grand Hall.<\/p>\n

Her presentation is \u201cThe Free State of Jones: The Politics of Race, Class and Memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State University, San Marcos. An award-winning author and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, she is the author of The Free State of Jones: Mississippi\u2019s Longest Civil War, and numerous other works analyzing class, race and gender relations in the Civil War Era South.<\/p>\n

On her blog, Professor Bynum explains how she came to write The Free State of Jones: \u201cAs both a historian and an individual, I am on the hunt for ordinary people who commit extraordinary acts. I am especially drawn to those who confront systems of power in unlikely ways alongside unlikely allies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, the story of Newton Knight\u2019s armed rebellion against Confederate authorities in southeast Mississippi was depicted in a film starring Matthew McConaughey and Mahershala Ali.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bynum\u2019s other books are Unruly Women and The Long Shadow of the Civil War.<\/p>\n

She earned her Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego, and began teaching at Texas State University in 1986.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Walz taught history at SAU from 1958 to 1987. He promoted the study of Arkansas history through his\u00a0scholarship, preservation of historic photographs, and leadership in state organizations.<\/p>\n

The Walz Lectureship was established in 1995 with a bequest from the estate of Mrs. Curtistine A. Walz, in honor of her husband’s long service to the university.<\/p>\n

The lecture is sponsored by the College of Liberal and Performing Arts at Southern Arkansas University.<\/p>\n

The lecture is free and open to the public. The audience is also welcomed to attend a reception for Professor Bynum in the Reynolds Center following the lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victoria Bynum will deliver the annual Robert B. Walz Lecture in Arkansas and Regional History at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 19, in Southern Arkansas University\u2019s Reynolds Center Grand Hall. Her presentation is \u201cThe Free State of Jones: The Politics of Race, Class and Memory.\u201d Dr. Bynum is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Texas State… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":6387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,207,156],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-liberal-performing-arts","9":"category-history-political-science-geography","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}