CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 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 Otermín'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 Describes 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 the Conspiracy 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 -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.