Middletown and the Birth of Arms Manufacturing – Walking Tour Hosted by the Middlesex County Historical Society

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

Visualizing Firearms History: An Applied Quantitative and Archival Approach for a Project-Based Exploration

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

New CSGS Postdoctoral Researchers

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

Center for the Study of Guns & Society Hosts Second Annual Fall Conference

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

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