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In this deeply researched prequel to his 2006 study Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874–1947, Michael J. Pfeifer analyzes the foundations of ly

Investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the lat

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

Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world. By the fo

The story of the movement to establish the International Criminal Court, its tumultuous first decade, and the challenges it will continue to face in the future.