1. Mob Violence and the Solid South: Social Institutions and the Project of White Patrician Patriarchy • Amy K. Bailey, University of Illinois at Chicago; Erielle Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago; Madalyn Grohovena, University of Illinois Chicago; Alberto Corral, University of Illinois Chicago.

2. Let Us Not Kiss the Hand That Smites Us: Black Methodists on Lynching, 1890-1902 • Malcolm Foley, Baylor University.

3. Unsettling Women: The Executions of Women in the United States, 1877-1941 • Daniel LaChance, Emory.

4. The Strange Career of Judge Lynch: How Newspapers Covered Lynching in the United States 1880-1950 • Charles Seguin, Pennsylvania State University; Marjan Davoodi, The Pennsylvania State University.