Seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southe...

Scholarship on lynching has typically been confined to the extralegal execution of African Americ...

InThe Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve ...

Violence forms a constant backdrop to American history, from the revolutionary overthrow of Briti...

This book examines African Americans' strategies for resisting white racial vio...

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American Sou...

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court d...

Violence forms a constant backdrop to American history, from the revolutionary overthrow of Briti...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Pre...

An examination of the historical experience of African Americans as a case study of America's leg...

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century...

In 1937 the Supreme Court revolutionized American constitutionalism, sharply restricting the stat...