Spring 2024 Combining oral history, visual storytelling methods, and documentary performance in a workshop format, this course will reenact court transcripts and contemporary and historic testimonies related to guns and…
The Center for the Study of Guns & Society will be the first academic site dedicated to interdisciplinary humanities study and teaching on the social and cultural history of firearms. …
Spring 2026 (Also taught Spring 2023-2025) Taught by Joseph Slaughter This course examines the history of firearms and religion in the United States, ultimately seeking to understand the significance of…
Fall 2022 Taught by Peter Rutland While most societies condemn physical violence between individuals, they condone and encourage collectively organized violence in the form of warfare. War is obscene, yet…



