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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- Introductory -- 1. Writing and Floundering On, or, Prefatory Material -- 2. Theobald's Early Interest in the Elizabethans -- 3. Theobald as Shakespearian Editor -- 4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- 5. Don Quixote in Eighteenth Century England, or The Madness of Cardenio -- 6. The Rifling of Beauty's Stores -- 7. A Postscript on Motivation -- Appendix: A Note on the Plates -- Bibliography -- Index

In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloguer, published a History of Lynching in Kansas. This book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various reasons are not lynchings in Kansas.

This chronological discussion of the death penalty in Missouri covers those executed from 1803 through 2005. Sources include newspapers, county histories, prison records, Union Army records, pardon papers and appellate court cases. Chapters discuss such topics as the death penalty offenses of Indians and blacks, death sentences carried out by the military, lynchings, the gas chamber, the executions of rapists, juveniles, and women, pardons and...

Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issue in America, with the scars inflicted running deep. This study examines crimes such as stealing, burglary, arson, rape and murder committed against and by slaves, with most of the authors information coming from handwritten court records and newspapers. These documents show the death penalty rarely applied when a slave killed another slave, but that it always applied when a slave killed a ...

At least 227 mob lynchings took place on Missouri soil between 1803 and 1981, all of which are identified, confirmed, and documented in this first investigation of the state's lynching history. This title includes chapters that focus on lynchings which took place before the nationwide lynching fervor of the 1880s.