Edward L. Ayers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South.John C. WIllis is completing his dissertation at the University of Virginia.

Edward L. Ayers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South.John C. WIllis is completing his dissertation at the University of Virginia.

Edward L. Ayers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South.John C. WIllis is completing his dissertation at the University of Virginia.