Lynching in America: A History in Documents

The Journal of Southern History | August 1, 2007| | Copyright

Lynching in America: A History in Documents. Edited by Christopher Waldrep. (New York and London: New York University Press, c. 2006. Pp. xxii, 279. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9399-2; cloth, $75.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-9398-5.)

Christopher Waldrep's collection of excerpts from newspapers, magazines, novels, court decisions, and congressional testimony composes a sourcebook that builds on his The Many Faces of Judge Lynch: Extralegal Violence and Punishment in America (New York, 2002). Like that thought-provoking history of lynching, including its relationships to extralegal violence and ...

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