Daniel Byman, "American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America" (Oxford UP, 2026)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Aug 14, 2026 · 1h 3m

Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America (Oxford University Press, 2026) chronicles the causes and consequences of two centuries of mob violence in American history, highlighting exactly what's at stake when we allow leaders to legitimate violence and the mob to rule. For much of American history, members of the majority population of the United States indiscriminately attacked and terrorized minority communities. In some parts of the country, mob violence seemed a near-constant part of the region's…