Books by Michael J. Pfeifer

This collection of essays illuminates the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic.

A social history of the emergence of lynching in America

Investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century. This work examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions.