| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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The Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920 <http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/>. Created and maintained by the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn. Reviewed Nov. 30, 2003.
Of all the skeletons in the national closet, lynching has received but scant attention from historians and the public alike. Despite its long and widespread presence in American life and its use as a form of social and political control, scholarly studies of lynching remain relatively few and far between. Moreover, as some early-twentieth-century lynchings—with their horrific mutilations and the burning alive of their victims—are some of the most barbaric acts ever to occur in the United States, it is hardly surprising that many Americans would just as soon see such an unsettling part of our past be forgotten altogether.	1
But there have also been some notable recent efforts to shed light on lynching. An exhibition of James Allen's remarkable collection of lynching photographs and postcards—published under the title Without Sanctuary (2000)—drew record crowds in Manhattan and two in-depth articles in the New York Times. New books on lynchings have also appeared: Laura Wexler's Fire in a Canebrake (2003), Steve Oney's And the Dead Shall Rise (2003), and Mamie Till-Mobley's memoir, Death of Innocence (2003).	. . .

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