| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Murder, Honor, and Law: 4 Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By Richard F. Hamm. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiv, 263 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-8139-2207-0. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8139-2208-9.)
How different—how much, and in what ways—was the U.S. South from the rest of the nation in the years between Reconstruction and the Great Depression? Richard F. Hamm joins the history of Virginia (and the South in general) with criminal justice and the history of the press to pursue perceptions of regional exceptionalism. He highlights the press coverage of four trials of white Virginians for murder, following one white man's death each, in 1868, 1892, 1907, and 1935.	1
Essential, in Hamm's view, to each of the four cases was the outside press coverage. The outsiders' assessments of Virginia society and law occasioned rebuttals by Virginia newspapers that articulated major components of interregional perspectives of what, if anything, distinguished the South from the rest of the nation and which region had the superior culture.	. . .

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