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Moderator: Sean McCann (Wesleyan University) Panelists: Demetrius L. Eudell (Wesleyan University): “Carceral Connecticut Project: The History of Race, Violence, and Capitalism in the Connecticut River Valley” Joshua Aiken (Yale University):…

Moderator:  Joseph Slaughter (Associate Director, Center for the Study of Guns & Society) Panelists: Katherine Carté (Southern Methodist University): “Religion, Guns, and Violence in Revolutionary America” Michael J. McVicar (Florida…

Moderator:  Roberto Saba (Wesleyan University) Panelists:  Jonathan Obert (Amherst College): “The Economic Origins of American Gun Rights” Tracy L. Barnett (University of Georgia): “‘Men and Their Guns: The Culture of…

Discussant: Peter Rutland (Wesleyan) Christopher Lawrence (The Dupuy Institute, VA): “Evolution of Weapons and Warfare” (Photos by Czarina Yuffa.)

Moderator: Crystal Feimster (Yale University) Panelists: David J. Silverman (George Washington University): “The First American Gun Crisis” Kevin Sweeney (Amherst College): “Guns in the Cultures of Eighteenth-Century America” Saul Cornell…

Moderator: Jennifer Tucker (Founding Director, Center for the Study of Guns & Society, and Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan) Presenters: Carlotta Gidal (CSS, ’23) Latonya Smith (CS and ECON, ’24)…

Moderator: Leah Glaser (Central Connecticut State University) Panelists: Alex MacKenzie, Springfield Armory National Historic Site (National Park Service) Amy Glowacki, Coltsville National Historic Park (National Park Service) Danny Michael, Buffalo…