American Violence by Hofstadter, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Preface Contents Reflections on Violence in the United States Part I - Political Violence

Pilgrims versus Puritans, 1634 Battle of the Severn, 1655 Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676 Bloody Election in Philadelphia, 1742 Knowles Riot in Boston, 1747 Stamp Act Riots, 1765 Boston Massacre, 1770 Battle of Alamance, 1771 Terrorism Against Loyalists, 1774–1775 Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 Philadelphia Election Riot, 1834 Christiana Affair, 1851 Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 Baltimore Election Riot, 1856 Harper’s Ferry, 1859 New Orleans Coup d’État, 1874

Part II - Economic Violence

Bread Riot in Boston, 1713 Mast Tree Riot, 1734 New Jersey Tenant Riots, 1745–1754 New York Agrarian Rebellion, 1766 Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787 Anti-Bank Riot in Baltimore, 1835 Flour Riot in New York, 1837 Squatters’ Riots, 1850 Railroad Strike, 1877 Louisiana Sugar Strike, 1887 Homestead, 1892 Coeur d’Alene, 1892 Pullman Strike, 1894 Wheatland Riot, 1913 Ludlow, 1913–1914 Steel Strike, 1919 Herrin Massacre, 1922 Chicago Eviction, Riot 1931 Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, 1935 Memorial Day Massacre, 1937

Part III - Racial Violence

Slave Revolts and Their Suppression

New York Slave Revolt, 1712 Louisiana Uprising, 1811 Vesey Uprising, 1822 Nat Turner, 1831 Texas Slave Insurrection, 1860

Race Riots

Providence, 1831 Cincinnati, 1841 New York Draft Riot, 1863 New Orleans, 1866 Vicksburg, 1874 Wilmington, 1898 Atlanta, 1906 East St. Louis, 1917 Chicago, 1919 Tulsa, 1921 Detroit, 1943

Ghetto Riots

Harlem, 1935 Watts, 1965 Detroit, 1967

Some Casualties of Conquest

The Paxton Riots, 1763–1764 Cheyenne Massacre, 1864 Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890 Brutalities in the Philippines, 1899–1902

Part IV - Religious and Ethnic Violence

Persecution of Quakers, 1656–1661 Burning of Ursuline Convent, 1834 Anti-Mormon Riot, 1838 Philadelphia Nativist Riots, 1844 Pentecost Riot in Hoboken, 1851 Louisville, 1855 Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1857 Orange Riot, 1871 Anti-Chinese Riot in Los Angeles, 1871 Rock Springs Massacre, 1885 Anti-Italian Riot in New Orleans, 1891 Zoot-Suit Riot, 1943

Part V - Anti-Radical and Police Violence

Anti-Abolition Riot in New York, 1834 Tompkins Square, 1874 Everett Massacre, 1916 May Day Riot in Cleveland, 1919 Centralia, 1919 Dearborn Massacre, 1932 Bonus Army, 1932 Peekskill Riot, 1949 Freedom Riders, 1961 Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 Chicago, 1968

Part VI - Personal Violence

Hamilton-Burr Duel, 1804 Jackson-Dickinson Duel, 1806 Sand Bar Gun Battle, 1827 Assault on Charles Sumner, 1856 The Hatfields and the McCoys, 1873–1888 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 1881

Part VII - Assassinations, Terrorism, Political Murders

Murder of Lovejoy, 1837 Assassination of Lincoln, 1865 Assassination of Garfield, 1881 Haymarket, 1886 Attempted Murder of Henry Clay Frick, 1892 Assassination of Frank Steunenberg, 1905 Dynamiting of Los Angeles Times, 1910 Wall Street Bombing, 1920 Murder of Medgar Evers, 1963 Murder of Malcolm X, 1965 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 1968

Part VIII - Violence in the Name of Law, Order, and Morality

Doctors’ Riot, 1788 Portland Whorehouse Riot, 1825 Vicksburg Gamblers, 1835 Astor Place Riot, 1849 San Francisco Vigilance Committee, 1856 Montana Vigilantes, 1863–1865 Cincinnati Riot, 1884 Lynching at Memphis, 1893

Epilogue