Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. He is author of, among other books, The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.

Berg traces lynching’s U.S. history, starting with the Colonial era and coming to the present, addressing the characteristics of this brutal punishment undertaken by 'ordinary' people.

• Chapter 1: The Roots of Lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North AmericaChapter 2: The Rising Tide of Lynch-Law in Antebellum AmericaChapter 3: Frontier JusticeChapter 4: Lynching, Riots, and Political Terror in the Civil War EraChapter 5: "Indescribable Barbarism": The Lynching of African Americans in the Age of Jim CrowChapter 6: Popular Justice Beyond Black and WhiteChapter 7: The Struggle Against LynchingChapter 8: From Lynching to Hate CrimeConclusion: Lynching in American Memory and Culture

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. He is author of, among other books, The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.

Berg traces lynching’s U.S. history, starting with the Colonial era and coming to the present, addressing the characteristics of this brutal punishment undertaken by 'ordinary' people.

• Chapter 1: The Roots of Lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North AmericaChapter 2: The Rising Tide of Lynch-Law in Antebellum AmericaChapter 3: Frontier JusticeChapter 4: Lynching, Riots, and Political Terror in the Civil War EraChapter 5: "Indescribable Barbarism": The Lynching of African Americans in the Age of Jim CrowChapter 6: Popular Justice Beyond Black and WhiteChapter 7: The Struggle Against LynchingChapter 8: From Lynching to Hate CrimeConclusion: Lynching in American Memory and Culture

Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. He is author of, among other books, The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration.

Berg traces lynching’s U.S. history, starting with the Colonial era and coming to the present, addressing the characteristics of this brutal punishment undertaken by 'ordinary' people.

• Chapter 1: The Roots of Lynching in Colonial and Revolutionary North AmericaChapter 2: The Rising Tide of Lynch-Law in Antebellum AmericaChapter 3: Frontier JusticeChapter 4: Lynching, Riots, and Political Terror in the Civil War EraChapter 5: "Indescribable Barbarism": The Lynching of African Americans in the Age of Jim CrowChapter 6: Popular Justice Beyond Black and WhiteChapter 7: The Struggle Against LynchingChapter 8: From Lynching to Hate CrimeConclusion: Lynching in American Memory and Culture