Bynum's book serves as the inspiration for the major motion picture of the same name, ... The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War.

House of Cards actor Mahershala Ali lends his powerful voice to the audiobook version of Free State of Jones, and EW is excited to debut a new clip from the book below. Originally published in ...

House of Cards actor Mahershala Ali lends his powerful voice to the audiobook version of Free State of Jones, and EW is excited to debut a new clip from the book below. Originally published in ...

“The Jones County insurrectionists were neither abolitionists nor ‘Southern Yankees,’” says Victoria Bynum, who wrote the 2001 book “The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest ...

Author Victoria Bynum discusses her book, Free State of Jones, which is now a new Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mcconaughey. Watch Chris Jans discuss Mississippi State basketball's OT loss to ...

Free State of Jones was a book before it was a movie! Victoria E. Byrum wrote The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War in 2003, 13 years before the movie was made!

And so the state anxiously awaits Friday’s premiere, in theaters across the country, of “Free State of Jones,” with Matthew McConaughey in the lead role. But this time, it may not cringe as ...

If “Free State of Jones,” its firelit confabs, rural greenery and Southern heat nicely captured by cinematographer Benoit Delhomme (“The Theory of Everything”), has a standing flaw, it’s ...

Watch a film clip from "Free State of Jones," starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Mahershala Ali. Photo: STX Productions Knight, a farmer from Jones County, Miss., earned his place ...

JONES COUNTY — With good reason, Mississippians always get nervous when Hollywood is about to tell the world its version of our history. It is especially true when the movie deals with the ...