1. No mention of the Duluth mob or the lynchings was found in major histories of Minnesota. See William Watts Folwell, A History of Minnesota, 4 vols. (St. Paul; Minnesota Historical Society, 1921, 1924, 1926, 1930); and Theodore C. Blegen, Minnesota: A History of the State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1963).
2. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckman, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), 23.
3. Gaye Tuchman, Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality (New York: Free Press, 1978), 183–84.
4. No Cure for what Ails US: The Media-Constructed Disconnect between Societal Problems and Possible Solutions