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‘Impossible Love’ will arrive soon
The page proofs arrived last week, so my contribution to a new book on lynching in Virginia will soon be a reality. The University of Virginia Press will publish Lynching in Virginia: Racial Terror and its Legacy this spring. Prof. Gianluca De Fazio, an associate professor at James Madison University, is the editor. De Fazio
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Handwriting so bad even AI can’t crack it
It happens often, as it did this month in Hagerstown, Md., when a person asked me, “What about Elvira? What happened to her?” Elvira and her disappearance are the most mysterious aspect of the Arthur Jordan story. For me, however, Dr. Gustavus Horner has second place locked down. As I recounted in Condemned for Love,
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Library of Virginia adds lynching site
Researchers who study lynchings in Virginia have a new database to work with. The Lynching and Racial Violence Collection went online in May. It is a collaboration of the Library of Virginia and Gianluca De Fazio, an associate professor of justice studies at James Madison University. The collection spans 1866-1932 and includes court records and
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Is Virginia ready to apologize for lynching?
I applaud the efforts of Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan and others to pass a lynching resolution in this year’s General Assembly, but I’m not optimistic about their chances. McClellan, a Democrat, represents portions of the Richmond area in the Virginia Senate. She is also chair of the state’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission and
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New evidence of a change in how Thompson case is seen
I was delighted to learn recently that an essay I wrote has been published on a website I’ve long admired. The website, Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia, 1877-1927, is the creation of Gianluca DeFazio, an assistant professor in the Justice Studies Department at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. The site is a comprehensive, easy-to-use database,
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