Introduction: the elusive story of violence in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874 / by Kenneth W. Howell

Representatives of change: soldiers, bureau agents, and lawmen

The post of greatest peril?: the Freedmen's Bureau subassistant commissioners and Reconstruction violence in Texas, 1865/1869 / by Christopher Bean

"Shoot or get out of the way!": the murder of Texas Freedmen's Bureau agent William G. Kirkman by Cullen Baker; and the historians / by William L. Richter

The world turned upside down?: the military occupation of Victoria and Calhoun counties, 1865/1867 / by Charles D. Spurlin

William Longworth, Republican villain / by Richard B. McCaslin

"The old hero of many cowardly and bloody murders": scalawag gang leader Ben Brown / by Dale Baum

Finding a solution to Reconstruction violence: the Texas State Police / by Donaly Brice

The insurgents and their allies: Texas terrorists, politicians, and newspaper editors

When the Klan rode: terrorism in Reconstruction Texas / by James M. Smallwood

The Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the politics of fear / by Carl H. Moneyhon

"A free and outspoken press": coverage of Reconstruction violence and turmoil in Texas newspapers, 1866/1868 / by Mary Jo O'Rear

The victims: minorities and women

Into freedom's abyss: reflections of Reconstruction violence in Texas / by Ronald Goodwin

Foreigners in their native land: the violent struggle between Anglos and Tejanos for land titles in South Texas during Reconstruction / by Andres Tijerina

"To punish and humiliate the entire community": white violence perpetrated against African-American women in Texas, 1865/1868 / by Rebecca Kosary

Regional perspectives: the frontier, the interior, and places in between

Governor James Throckmorton and the question of frontier violence in Reconstruction Texas, 1866/1867 / by Kenneth W. Howell

An uncompromising line between Yankee rule and rebel rowdies: Reconstruction violence in Lavaca County / by Douglas Kubicek and Carroll Scogin-Brincefield

Reconstruction violence on the lower Brazos River Valley / by John W. Gorman.