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…
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): “The Social Life of Gun Control: Handguns, Violence, & Disorder in the 1960s & 70s” Brennan Gardner Rivas (Texas Christian Read more…
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 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 (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) Alex Trufinescu (CSS, ’23) Emma Tuhabonye (’23) Lucia Voges (AMST, ’23) (Photos by Kseniia Guliaeva.)
Moderator: Jesse Nasta (Wesleyan University) Panelists: Suzy Taraba (Director of Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University): “Artists Fight Back: Exhibiting Violence in Society” Glenn LaVertu (Parsons, The New School for Design): “They Come Alive: The Design and Philosophy of the Gun” Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University): “The Interlocked Histories of Photography Read more…
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.)
