A history of American domestic violence.

Reflections on violence in the United States / Richard Hofstadter --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 the 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 -- Part 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.