Introduction: Reconsidering lynching / William D. Carrigan
Wisconsin's last decade of lynching, 1881-1940: law and violence in the postbellum Midwest / Michael J. Pfeifer
Lynching in the Mid-Atlantic, 1882-1940 / Janice Hittinger Barrow
Lynch law reversed: the rape of Lula Sherman, the lynching of Manse Waldrop, and the debate over lynching in the 1880s / Bruce E. Baker
'Raw, quivering flesh': John G. Cashman's 'pornographic' constitutionalism designed to produce an 'aversion and detestation', 1883-1904 / Christopher Waldrep
Resolving the paradox of our lynching fixation: reconsidering racialized violence in the American South after slavery / Kidada E. Williams
'Warranted' lynchings: narratives of mob violence in Southern white newspapers, 1880-1940 / Susan Jean
Lynching photography and the visual reproduction of white supremacy / Amy Louise Wood
The lynching of Sicilian immigrants in the American South, 1880-1910 / Clive Webb
Conclusion / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.