More than 100 scholars, practitioners, and students from across the academic spectrum gathered Oct. 18 and 19 for the Center for the Study of Guns & Society’s (CSGS) annual fall conference at Wesleyan University. The cross-disciplinary summit featured presentations by historians, lawyers, curators, filmmakers, and public health experts, all focused Read more…
An opening panel on current legal cases, Alinor Sterling (Koskoff Koskoff and Bieder), Kelly Sampson (Brady), and Leigh Rome (Giffords) discussed how recent legal protections of the arms industry make it difficult to seek damages against manufacturers, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition in mass shootings. The panel also Read more…
Middletown and the Birth of Arms Manufacturing – Walking Tour Hosted by the Middlesex County Historical Society Friday, October 18, 2024 9:30am – 11am (please arrive 5 minutes early) Meeting Place: Corner of High Street and Wyllys Avenue, Middletown (GPS: use 281 High Street, Middletown) A prime location for early Read more…
Fall 2024 This project-based course provides a unique cross-disciplinary opportunity to study important historical questions surrounding firearms. Combining quantitative methodology in data science with qualitative research methods in history, students will answer questions of interest using existing datasets. Students will read, discuss, and write responses to the latest historical scholarship Read more…
Introducing CSGS postdoctoral researchers Brennan Gardner Rivas and Evan Turiano CSGS is thrilled to welcome two outstanding historians as postdoctoral researchers. Brennan Gardner Rivas and Evan Turiano will contribute to our project on “Firearms use and regulation in the 18th and 19th centuries: Modeling the Application of Historical Methods for Read more…
On October 13–14, the Center for the Study of Guns & Society (CSGS) at Wesleyan University, hosted its second-annual fall conference, “Current Perspectives on the History of Guns and Society.” The event convened historians, museum curators, legal scholars, journalists, filmmakers, and other subject-matter experts for panel discussions, a film screening, Read more…
In June 2023, the podcast “Our Body Politic” broadcast a panel, recorded live at the Center for the Study of Guns & Society’s May 2023 symposium, “Lessons from History on Domestic Violence, Firearms, and the Law.” Karen Attiah, Washington Post columnist and Our Body Politic guest host, moderated the panel, Read more…
