

History of American Government
References:
(1) Alice Morse Earle, The Sabbath in Puritan New England, Seventh Edition.
(2) Religion and the Founding of the American Republic.
http://www.forerunner.com/religion/rel03.html
(3) Jonathan Odell, The American Times, 1780.
(4) Morton Borden, Jews, Turks, and Infidels, as quoted by Susan Jacoby.
(5) Colonel Ward H. Lamon, Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1872.
(6) Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, pages 75-103.
(7) Time Line of African American History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timeline.html
Valuable sources in the compilation of Time Line: Lerone Bennett's Before the Mayflower (Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1982), W. Augustus Low and Virgil A. Clift's Encyclopedia of Black America (New York: Da Capo Press, 1984), and Harry A. Ploski and Warren Marr's The Negro Almanac (New York: Bellwether Co., 1976).
(8) H. L. Mencken, Damn! A book of Calumny, 1918.
(9) Jacoby, pages 334-335.
(10) UU web bio of Liuzzo at:
http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/violaliuzzo.html
Infamous Lynchings
http://www.americanlynching.com/infamous-old.html
History of Lynching in the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching
History of American Government
Foundational Documents of the United States