Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit,” lynching has immediate and graphic connotations for

Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.

A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas. After observing the varying reactions to

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