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Moderator:  Joseph Slaughter (Associate Director, Center for the Study of Guns and Society) Panelists: Katherine Carté (Southern Methodist University): “Religion, Guns, and Violence in Revolutionary America” Michael J. McVicar (Florida State University): “White Conservative Evangelicals and Firearms in the Late Twentieth Century” Jenny Wiley Legath (Princeton University): “’This House Protected Read more…

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 Self-Deputized Manhood in the South, 1850-1877” (Photos by Czarina Yuffa.)                                    

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 (Fordham University): “Abolitionism, Armed Self-defense, and Firearms Regulation in Antebellum America” (Photos by Czarina Yuffa.)

Moderator: Jennifer Tucker (Director, Center for the Study of Guns and Society, and Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan) Presenters: Carlotta Gidal (CSS, ’23) Latonya Smith (CS and ECON, ’24) Alex Trufinescu (CSS, ’23) Emma Tuhabonye (’23) Lucia Voges (AMST, ’23) (Photos by Kseniia Guliaeva.)

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 Bill Center of the West (Cody Firearms Museum) Jackie Loveland, John Moses Browning Mansion (Photos by Kseniia Guliaeva.)