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The lynching of Robert Prager, the United Mine Workers, and the problems of patriotism in 1918
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There is no mystery about how Robert Paul Prager died in the spring of 1918, and not much doubt about who was responsible. Prager was hanged from a tree, and a man named Joe Riegel confessed that he led the mob that did it, although he later retracted his confession. He and another ten men were tried for killing Prager, but acquitted. The motivation for the lynching was set in large type when a local newspaper topped its first story about the lynching with the headline, "Anti-German Mob Hangs Man Here."1
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James H. Madison, A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America.(Book Review)
; ...204 pp., $24.95 (cloth). For years, lynching was one of the ugly stepchildren of American...illustrating the complex and troubling role that lynching has played in the history of American...Madison adds to the growing body of lynching studies with the narrative of the lynching...
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A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature.(Book review)
; Jacqueline Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature. Chicago...cultural turn has come late to the study of lynching. During the advent of the cultural studies...revolution, scholars preferred explanations of lynching that emphasized the importance of socioeconomic...
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Olympia's Prager picks Illinois State for softball
; ...Olympia High School softball star Tiffany Prager has decided to accept a scholarship offer from ISU coach Melinda Fischer. Prager was the second baseman two years ago...I'm definitely looking forward to," Prager said. "The location is great, too...
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Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947
; Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947. By...An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York, 1905...he argued that the primary cause of lynching was the peculiar disregard that many...
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Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947.(Book review)
; Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947. By...An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York, 1905...he argued that the primary cause of lynching was the peculiar disregard that many...
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Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919.(Book Review)
; Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919. By Stephen J. Leonard. (Boulder...perpetual fascination. Stephen J. Leonard concentrates on 175 lynchings that took place in Colorado between 1859 and 1919. Leonard...he boldly asserts, has been the primary reason that lynching in places like Colorado has been ignored while ...
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Lynching in America: A History in Documents
; Lynching in America: A History in Documents. Edited by Christopher...New York, 2002). Like that thought-provoking history of lynching, including its relationships to extralegal violence and...scholars have failed to understand the meaning of the word lynching and to recognize its many politically rhetorical ...
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Lynching in America: A History in Documents.(Book review)
; Lynching in America: A History in Documents. Edited by Christopher...New York, 2002). Like that thought-provoking history of lynching, including its relationships to extralegal violence and...scholars have failed to understand the meaning of the word lynching and to recognize its many politically rhetorical ...
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
; ...the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. By Philip Dray...quarter century the scholarship on lynching has exploded. Two decades ago the best extant scholarly study of lynching remained Arthur Raper's The Tragedy...
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America.(Book Review)
; ...2.) During the past quarter century the scholarship on lynching has exploded. Two decades ago the best extant scholarly study of lynching remained Arthur Raper's The Tragedy of Lynching (Chapel Hill, 1933). Since then, studies of lynching in...
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