The history of lynching and mob violence has become a subject of considerable scholarly and public interest in recent years. Popular works by James Allen, Phili

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dynamics, and de

Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims

The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defi

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