Victoria Bynum is distinguished professor emeritus of history at Texas State University, San Marcos. A scholar of class, gender, and race relations in the Civil War-era South, she is an award-winning author and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Her book The Free State of Jones inspired the movie of the same title. Other publications include The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies and Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South. She is creator and administrator of the blog Renegade South.
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Victoria Bynum's book courageously explores her personal family history informed by her extensive knowledge of the past. By combining history and memoir, Bynum invites the reader to join her journey of discovery, including family secrets. While sympathetic to family members' struggles, Bynum never romanticizes the circumstances in which they lived, loved, and raised children. With lavish detail and her usual excellent writing, Bynum makes readers feel the past in intimate terms.--Noralee Frankel, historian and author An authentic American voice of a type rarely heard, Victoria Bynum writes with great heart--and deep historical insight--about the rags to riches, and riches to rags, life of a midcentury American family, her own. In prose worthy of a novel, Deep Roots, Broken Branches poignantly reminds us that amid upturns and downturns, the choices we make are ultimately our own.--Elizabeth Cobbs, author of Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonce