The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War traces the origins of a legendary band of Confederate deserters and slaves living in a mixed-race community who rose up against the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

‘Free State of Jones’ Review: Matthew McConaughey Leads Mixed-Race Rebellion to Mixed Results A curiously forgotten episode in Civil War history gets an educational but emotionally dry telling ...

In “Free State of Jones,” a fiction film all too freely adapted from historical records by its director, Gary Ross, Matthew McConaughey stars as Newt Knight, a fascinating figure on the ...

2. 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!

Matthew McConaughey's speechifying doesn't stir the new Civil War drama Free State of Jones.

“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 ...