... pointed to a new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Portraying the movement as a struggle by people of middling sorts against local elites, historians Leonard J. Moore, Shawn Lay, and Robert A. Goldberg, among others, have stressed Klansmen’s frustration over the failure of local...

... kind in the United States, published its report on May 25, 2006. Will this project succeed in establishing some basic truth about the 1979 Greensboro Massacre? Can it serve as a model for other such projects in the United States? • • • • • On November 3, 1979, Ku Klux Klansmen...

... that Southern reactionaries set up Ku Klux Klansmen as noble defenders of social stability and even constitutional prin- ciple, thus rendering terrorism all-American rather than foreign. In counterpoint, Ida B. Wells, the courageous journalist who campaigned tirelessly against lynching...

... of the occupations of the eighteen Klansmen who were indicted for the murders reveals that eleven held petty-bourgeois positions such as manager, salesman, and entrepreneur, including the Imperial Wizard, Samuel Holloway Bowers, Jr., who owned a realty com- pany and a vending-machine company. Only three...

... convened McComb and Pike County officials to warn them he was on the verge of mobilizing the Mississippi National Guard to McComb. Within twenty-four hours, Klansmen were being arrested for the bombings, and one week later a total of eleven...

... packed with Klansmen headed for Chicago), and, of course, through the dark princess of the novel’s title. These developments move along the novel’s improbable, fantastical plot. They are also, however, the crucibles in which the novel’s perspective is transformed...