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A history of lynching in America over the course of three centuries, from colonial Virginia to twentieth-century Texas
After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined that to comprehend this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the United States. In this meticulously researched and accessibly written interpretive history, Rushdy shows how lynching in America has endured, evolved, and changed in meaning over the course of three centuries, from...

Public apologies have become increasingly common scenes and representative moments in what appears to be a global process of forgiveness. The apology-forgiveness dynamic is familiar to all of us, but what do these rituals of atonement mean when they are applied to political and historical events?

In his timely, topical, and incisive book "A Guilted Age," Ashraf Rushdy argues that the proliferation of apologies by politicians, nations, and churches for past events such as American slavery or the Holocaust can be understood as a historical phenomenon. In our post World War II world, Rushdy...