Rooted in the broader tradition of vigilantism, the word lynching is primarily associated with the killing of African Americans by white mobs from the Civil War to the late twentieth century. At the height of lynchings in the United States, between...

Lynching involves acting outside the legal system to inflict punishment, often fatal, against individuals perceived as committing some offence against social order. Beyond tarring and feathering in the English mode, lynching in the US has comprised...

As synonyms for sexism, ‘machismo’ and ‘macho’ have a very short history. ‘Macho’, for example, first appeared in Mexico in the late 1930s and in the United States about a decade later. In Latin America today, the...

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Lynch Directed by blackANDwhite Opens October 26 IFC Center Lynch: Awfully mysterious, but we already knew that BY JIM RIDLEY After staggering out of Inland Empire like a mole groping toward sunlight, you could be forgiven for thinking...

STATE SENATOR Stephen F. Lynch emerged from last month's tough Democratic primary looking and sounding fit to go to Washington. The Globe endorsed another Democrat in that seven-person primary. But in the general election next Tuesday, Lynch has the strongest issue positions. This...

David Lynch, on a five-day visit to Israel to encourage transcendental meditation, met with Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres."Lynch is one of the greatest directors of our generation and a giant artist on his own, and it is a great honor...

John Lynch was living on his reputation for most of the season, memories of his past play having more to do with his making the Pro Bowl for the eighth time than anything he did this year. Still technically sound and impeccably prepared as ever,...

In the following essay, Brundage details responses to lynching by politicans and the press in Virginia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the following essay, Baker examines ballads associated with three lynchings in North Carolina and contends that, more than novels and poetry, folk music offers insight into attitudes toward lynching in the communities where they occurred.

In the following essay, McMurry delineates Ida B. Wells-Barnett's anti-lynching activism and career after the journalist's controversial departure from the Memphis Free Speech.