| Description |
xiv, 399 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Crime as social drama -- Hugh Stone, a convicted murderer, on the sin of murder, 1698 -- Jereboam O. Beauchamp confesses to murdering Solomon P. Sharp, 1825 -- Harry Thaw's account of his murder of Stanford White, 1906 -- Rev. Madison Peters justifies the murder of Stanford White, 1907 -- Jeffrey Toobin on the O.J. Simpson Trial, 1995 -- 2. The conquest of America -- Virginia's Capital Laws : laws of the Colony of Virginea, 1610-1611 -- The Pequot War : Capt. John Underhill's account of the Mystic Massacre, 1637 -- Kieft's War : David De Vries describes the beginnings of Kieft's War, 1642 -- Bacon's Rebellion : an anonymous account of the rebellion in Virginia, 1676 -- The Pueblo Uprising and its suppression : Governor Antonio de Otermin's report on the uprising in New Mexico, 1680 -- Spanish Officials question the Pueblo Indian Josephe, 1681 -- Don Carlos de Sigúenza y Góngora describes the reconquest of New Mexico, 1692 -- The Salem Witchcraft Trials : Thomas Brattle's account of witchcraft, 1692 -- The Paxton Boys : Benjamin Franklin's narrative of the massacres, 1763 -- 3. Revolutionary Violence -- The North Carolina regulators -- The Petition from the inhabitants of Orange County, North Carolina, 1770 -- Judge Richard Henderson confronts a riot in Hillsborough, North Carolina, 1770 -- The Virginia Gazette reports on the Battle of Alamance, 1771 -- The Boston Massacre : the town of Boston presents its version of the massacre, 1770 -- The American Revolution begins -- Reverend Jonas Clark descrubes the encounter at Lexington, 1775 -- Ensign Henry De Bernicre offers the British view of Lexington and Concord -- Revolutionary institutions -- Major General Steuben on the opportunities of war, 1779 -- Colonel George Rogers Clark on the conquest of the West, 1779 -- General Nathanael Greene on the difficulties of sustaining the war, 1781 -- Battling dissent -- Rivington's Gazette on the harassment of Loyalists, 1775 -- Wm. Christian, Col. William Preston, Capt. Patrick Lockhart, and Col. Charles Lynch on the revolutionary origins of lynching, 1779-1780 -- Shays's Rebellion -- General William Shephard on the confrontation at Springfield, Massachusetts, 1787 -- The town of Coleraine petitions for mercy for the Shaysites, 1787 -- General Benjamin Lincoln crushes Shays's Rebellion, 1787 -- Thomas Jefferson on the need for the occasional revolution, 1787. |
|
4. Slavery -- Slave Law -- Colonial Virginia slave laws -- Mississippi's Slave Code, 1848 -- North Carolina's Supreme Court considers the murder conviction of the Slave Caesar, 1849 -- Slave revolt in Virginia : Nat Turner describes his rebellion, 1831 -- A slave insurrection in Mississippi : the vigilantes of Madison County, Mississippi, justify their actions, 1835 -- Dueling : White Mississippians debate dueling, 1844 -- The daily experience of cruelty : Frederick Douglass searches for the meaning of violence in a slave regime, 1855 -- 5. The Civil War -- Harpers Ferry : The National Intelligencer describes events at Harpers Ferry, 1859 -- The experience of battle : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on the nature of warfare, 1861, 1862, 1864 -- The Battle of Gettysburg : the British Officer James A.L. Fremantle observes the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 -- The New York City Draft Riots : David M. Barnes records the violence of the New York City riots, 1863 -- Andersonville : excerpts from the diary of POW John L. Ransom, 1864 -- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln : Thomas M. Harris documents thecConspiracy to assassinate Lincoln, 1865 -- 6. The New South -- Black Codes : Mississippi's Black Code, 1865 -- New Orleans race riot : J.D. O'Connell's testimony before the House of Representatives, 1866 -- The KU Klux Klan : Henry Lowther's testimony before a Congressional Committee, 1871 -- The Vicksburg Massacre -- James M. Batchelor describes the Massacre, 1874 -- Testimony of Andrew Owen before the House of Representatives, 1874 -- James M. Batchelor writes of the thrill of violence, 1875 -- Calls for a Black Defense Force : Timothy Thomas Fortune's speech calling for self-defense, 1884 -- The Carrollton Massacre : James K. Vardaman justifies the Carrollton tragedy, 1886 -- Lynching : Ida B. Wells documents the violence against Black Americans, 1895 -- Wilmington Race Riots : Colonel Alfred M. Waddell justifies a race riot, 1898 -- White Opposition to Mob Violence : John Gordon Cashman warns of the danger of lawlessness, 1902, 1904 -- The Tulsa Race Riots : The Oklahoma Commission to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 seeks reparations, 2001. |
|
7. The Wild West in myth and reality -- The Mexican War : a group of Mexican editors blame U.S. aggression for an unnecessary war, 1850 -- The Little Bighorn Massacre -- The Chicago Tribune reports Custer's defeat, 1876 -- Hamlin Garland records the Cheyenne Two Moon's version of the battle, 1876 -- Billy the Kid : Pat Garrett's version of the Lincoln County War, 1877 -- Popular tribunals : Hubert Howe Bancroft defends vigilance committees, 1887 -- The Virginian : Owen Wister creates the standard image of the Wild West, 1902 -- Wounded Knee : James Mooney documents the Ghost Dance Religion and its consequence, 1890 -- 8. The industrialization of violence -- The strike of 1877 : Allan Pinkerton on putting down the great strike of 1877 -- The Haymarket Trials : Michael J. Schaack remembers "the Red Terror" in Chicago, 1886 -- Class war in Coeur D'Alene : The Spokane Weekly Review reports on the violence in Coeur d'Alene, 1892 -- The assassination of Frank Steunenberg : Harry Orchard on making a bomb, 1905 -- The Ludlow Massacre : The United States Commission on Industrial Relations charges the Colorado National Guard with inciting violence, 1913 -- The Hawk's Nest Tunnel : Philippa Allen, Arthur Peyton, Rush Dew Holt, and John W. Finch testify before the House of Representatives on America's worst industrial disaster, 1936 -- 9. Violence as a means of crime control -- The problem with Due Process : Justice David J. Brewer downplays the importance of Due Process, 1903 -- The problem of class : the final statements of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to the Court sentencing them to death, 1927 -- The problem with the police : The Wickersham Commission documents police brutality, 1931 -- The problem of organized crime : testimony of Claude A. Follmer before a Congressional Committee, 1950 -- The problem of race : The California Governor's Commission looks for the causes of the Watts Riot of 1965 -- The Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department looks for the causes of the Los Angeles Riot of 1992 -- The Death Penalty : The Supreme Court considers the electrocution of convicted criminals, In re Kemmler, 1890 -- The Supreme Court considers the Death Penalty in Furman v. Georgia, 1972. |
|
10. Civil Rights -- A law against lynching -- Walter White meets with Attorney General Homer Cummings, 1936 -- Walter White appeals to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936 -- Victor Rotnem argues for a Civil Right "Not to Be lynched," 1943 -- Justice Frank Murphy's notes on the Supreme Court debate over a right not to be lynched, 1944 -- Emmett Till : William Bradford Huie describes "the shocking story of approved killing in Mississippi," 1956 -- Freedom rides -- James Farmer leads the Freedom Riders, 1961 -- FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. participates in Klan violence, 1961 -- Confrontation at Ole Miss : The Mississippi National Guard confronts rioters at the University of Mississippi, 1962 -- Jail as a temple of freedom : Aaron Henry's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, 1963 -- A President speaks in favor of Civil Rights : President Lyndon B. Johnson calls for an end to racist violence, 1965 -- The Supreme Court places Civil Rights above States' Rights : The Supreme Court on the murder of Michael Schwerner, James Goodman, and James Chaney, in United States v. Price, et al., 1966 -- 11. Lost to history -- Living with domestic violence : Abigail Bailey describes her husband's violent ways, 1767-1789 -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl : Harriet Jacobs, a slave, is raped by her owner, 1861 -- The rights of the victim : Marla Hanson's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1990. |
| Subject |
Violence -- United States -- History -- Sources.
|
|
United States -- History -- Sources.
|
|
Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
|
Gewalt. (DE-588)4020832-1
|
|
United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
|
|
Gewalttätigkeit.
|
|
United States.
|
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte.
|
| Genre/Form |
Quelle.
|
|
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
|
|
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
|
| Added Author |
Waldrep, Christopher, 1951-
|
|
Bellesiles, Michael A.
|
| ISBN |
0195150031 (alk. paper) |
|
9780195150032 (alk. paper) |
|
019515004X (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
|
9780195150049 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780195150032 |
|
9780195150049 |
|
