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This course uses big data to examine how American newspapers covered lynchings

  • Written by Rob Wells, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
imageMore than 5,000 Black people have been lynched in the US.Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Lynching and the Press

What prompted the idea for the course?

One of my students was reviewing a spreadsheet that...

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