-AUTHOR AND LECTURER-
MIKE BUNN
ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND GALLERY GUIDES
I have written a variety of articles for online encyclopedias, journals, magazines, and other publications, as well as authored book chapters and numerous exhibition guides. Below is a listing of much of this work.
Mississippi Encyclopedia Online
Mississippi History Now
"Capitals and Capitols: The Places and Spaces of Mississippi’s Seat of Government"
"A Failed Enterprise: The French Colonial Period in Mississippi"
"Mississippi’s Territorial Years: A Momentous and Contentious Affair (1798-1817)"
Alabama Heritage Magazine
“Clash of Cultures: The Creek War in Alabama” (Spring, 2009)
“The Eufaula Regency: Alabama’s Most Celebrated Secessionist Faction" (Summer, 2016)
“More or Less Arbitrary: The Story Behind the Location of the Alabama-Mississippi Border
(Summer, 2017)
“The Alabama Territory: Quarter by Quarter,” a nine-part series (2017-2019)
"A Tale of Two Spanish Forts," (co-authored with Dr. Gregory Waselkov (Summer, 2022)
"The Tuscaloosa Bards: Alabama's First Literary Society" (Fall, 2023)
"The Tensaw River: Alabama's Hidden Heritage Corridor" (Winter, 2024)
"A Flourishing Seaport: Visitor Descriptions of Antebellum Mobile's Commercial Scene" (Summer, 2024)
“Before Birmingham” The Early Settlement in Jones Valley,” in Alabama Heritage (Fall, 2025)
Journal of Mississippi History
“Frontier in Flames: The Creek War and the Mississippi Territory" (Summer, 2012)
Muscogiana
"Artist for Hire: The Legacy of Itinerant Artists in Columbus, Georgia"
"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Some Items from the Collection of the Columbus Museum"
"Columbus in 1839: An Excerpt from James S. Buckingham's The Slave States of America"
"Recollections of the Last Battle"
"A Letter from Columbus Shortly After the Last Battle"
"The Photograph of the C.S.S. Jackson in the Chattahoochee River at Columbus"
"The Columbus Diary of Confederate Soldier James William Howard"
"All Roads Lead to Coweta: Part Two"
"All Roads Lead to Coweta: Part One"
"Columbus in Early Nineteenth Century Travel Narratives"
"Official Reports by Federal Forces Concerning the Battle of Columbus"
"A Few Columbus Connections to Mobile's Magnolia Cemetery"
"The 1853 Diary of Laurence Eugene O'Keeffe: A Snapshot of Life in Antebellum Columbus"
"A Tour Through Creek Country: Travel Writer John Pope's Stay on the Chattahoochee in 1791"
"An Interview With Primus King, Conducted by Paul A. Davis"
"William Dudley Chipley: Forgotten Columbus Native and Icon of Florida History"
"Noble Leslie Devotie: First Martyr to the Southern Cause"
"A Description of Columbus in 1864: A Letter from Lt. Commander Edward P. Simpson of the U.S. Navy
"'Some Loose and Desultory Remarks' Jefferson Davis's Visit to Columbus on September 30, 1864"
"Soil of the South: Antebellum Columbus's Locally-Published Agricultural Journal"
“Columbus’s NASCAR Tragedy: The July, 1948, Incident at Columbus Speedway”
“A Note on the Group of Prominent Georgians Associated with the Denouement of the Confederate Cause in Georgia”
Columbus Museum Exhibition Guides
Book Chapters
“Let the Records Show, Discovering the Valley’s Black Community in Slavery and Freedom,” a case study
Other
“Interpreting Battlefields,” in Legacy Magazine, Nov.-Dec., 2017
“Slavery in the Shelby Iron Works During the Civil War” in Shelby Quarterly, Spring 2003
“Slavery in the Clarke County Saltworks, 1861-1865” in Clarke Historical Quarterly, Fall 1999