At the Hands of Persons Unknown
Language: en
Pages: 554
Authors: Philip Dray
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Modern Library

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WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times This extraordinary ac
Southern Horrors
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Crystal N. Feimster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-23 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In
Persons Unknown
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Susie Steiner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-04 - Publisher: Random House

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In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own
Popular Justice
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Manfred Berg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-16 - Publisher: Government Institutes

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Lynching has often been called "America's national crime" that has defined the tradition of extralegal violence in America. Having claimed many thousand victims
Fire in a Canebrake
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Laura Wexler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-13 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the M