A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature A sign of the times : lynching and its cultural logic Writing dynamitically : Ida B. Wells The drift of the public mind : Stephen Crane Lynchings mass appeal and the terrible real : James Weldon Johnson Through a different lens : lynching photography at the turn of the nineteenth century In the minds eye A sign of the times : lynching and its cultural logic Writing dynamitically : Ida B. Wells The drift of the public mind : Stephen Crane Lynchings mass appeal and the terrible real : James Weldon Johnson Through a different lens : lynching photography at the turn of the nineteenth century In the minds eye.