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July 2024 Newsletter

Posted on August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 by Deidre Goodrich

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CSGS News

CSGS Fall 2024 Conference: Exploring America’s Complicated Relationship with Guns

Posted on November 9, 2024July 22, 2025 by admin
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Nov

Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosts third-annual conference at a pivotal moment in the national conversation about firearms More than 100 scholars, practitioners, and students from across…

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Conference Panels

CSGS Fall 2024 Conference: Presentation Summaries

Posted on November 9, 2024July 22, 2025 by admin
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Nov

Center for the Study of Guns & Society hosts third-annual conference at a pivotal moment in the national conversation about firearms An opening panel on current legal cases, Alinor Sterling…

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Newsletter

November 2024 Newsletter

Posted on November 1, 2024August 12, 2025 by asquaredstudio

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CSGS News

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

Posted on September 18, 2024July 22, 2025 by admin
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Sep

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…

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Courses-2024-25

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

Posted on June 27, 2024July 22, 2025 by admin

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…

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CSGS News

New CSGS Postdoctoral Researchers

Posted on June 27, 2024July 22, 2025 by admin
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Jun

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…

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CSGS News

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

Posted on October 19, 2023July 22, 2025 by admin
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Oct

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.”…

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CSGS News

NEH Supports “Engineering Safety into U.S. Firearms: 1750-2010” Research at the Center for the Study of Guns & Society

Posted on August 29, 2023July 22, 2025 by Deidre Goodrich
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Aug

In America, firearms are widely discussed through the lenses of laws and ownership, gun violence statistics, and the contested history of the right to bear arms. Firearms are designed to kill….

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CSGS News, Interviews

“Our Body Politic” Podcast Features Panel from CSGS Symposium

Posted on July 3, 2023January 8, 2026 by admin

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…

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