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Independent Press Award
2025 winner
Doreen Chaky and Adrienne Stepanek
Lynched: Mob Murders on the Northern Great Plains, 1882-1931
In "Lynched: Mob Murders on the Northern Great Plains, 1882-1931," authors Doreen Chaky and Adrienne Stepanek examine the chilling history of lynchings in North Dakota, revealing how communities justified extralegal violence in the absence of a reliable legal system, ultimately portraying lynching as a persistent and brutal form of murder.
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