November 16, 2001
Scholar Issues Defense of His History of Guns in America
Michael A. Bellesiles, a professor of history at Emory University, has issued a response to critics of his controversial research on the history of gun ownership in America.
In "Disarming the Critics," written for the newsletter of the Organization of American Historians, Mr. Bellesiles answers several criticisms leveled against his widely discussed 2000 book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (Alfred A. Knopf), in which he argued that gun ownership in early
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