Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Michael J. Pfeifer
Part I. The West
1. “Who Dares to Style This Female a Woman?”: Lynching, Gender, and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. West
2. The Popular Sources of Political Authority in 1856 San Francisco: Lynching, Vigilance, and the Difference between Politics and Constitutionalism
3. “Light Is Bursting upon the World!”: White Supremacy and Racist Violence against Blacks in Reconstruction Kansas
4. The Rise and Fall of Mob Violence against Mexicans in Arizona, 1859–1915 William D. Carrigan
5. Making Utah History: Press Coverage of the Robert Marshall Lynching, June 1925 Kimberley Mangun
Part II. The Midwest
6. “The cry of the Negro should not be remember the Maine, but remember the hanging of Bush”: African American Responses to Lynching in Decatur, Illinois, 1893
7. Race, Sex, and Riot: The Springfield, Ohio, Race Riots of 1904 and 1906 and the Sources of Antiblack Violence in the Lower Midwest
8. Lynching in Late-Nineteenth-Century Michigan Michael J. Pfeifer
Part III. The Northeast
9. “They Lynched Jim Cullen”: Story and Myth on the Northern Maine Frontier Dena Lynn Winslow
10. The “Delaware Horror”: Two Ministers, a Lynching, and the Crisis of Democracy Dennis B. Downey
Appendix: Lynchings in the Northeast, Midwest, and West
Contributors
Index