Outside of the classroom and scholarly publications, lynching has long been a taboo subject. Nice people, it is felt, do not talk about it, and they certainly d

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

"A lucid, smart, engaging, and accessible introduction to the impact of lynching photography on the history of race and violence in America. "—Grace Elizabeth

This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far b

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle,