Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of

The history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma—leaving the visual story o

A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and re

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary

In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the