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”
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