Christmas Specials | Murder and memory

That dear old oak in Georgia

The long afterlife of America’s only anti-Semitic lynching

Little Mary and her great-niece
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This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline “That dear old oak in Georgia”

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