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In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the

James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of rape, the World Wa

In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947, Michael J. Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of ly

In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough jus