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The Wild West Meets the Southern Border

At first glance, frontier towns near the U.S.-Mexico border seem oblivious both of history and of the current political reality.
by Valeria Luiselli via The New Yorker on June 3, 2019

The Supreme Court’s Worst Decision of My Tenure

DC v. Heller recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution. Here’s why the case was wrongly decided.
by John Paul Stevens via The Atlantic on May 14, 2019

I Am a Big Black Man Who Will Never Own a Gun Because I Know I Would Use It

On history, race, and guns in America.
by Kiese Laymon via Medium on April 3, 2018

The Lessons of a School Shooting – in 1853

How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.
by Saul Cornell via Politico Magazine on March 24, 2018
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Guns in America

Reflections on the Second Amendment's original meaning, and how views about gun rights, gun ownership, and gun violence have evolved in the centuries since.

Bang for the Buck

Three new books paint a more nuanced portrait of the American militias whose gun rights have been protected since the founding.
by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2018

What America Gets Wrong About Three Important Words in the Second Amendment

The NRA misquotes George Mason to support its own view of "well-regulated militia."
by Robyn Pennacchia via Quartz on February 24, 2018

What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists

Slave ownership was once as entrenched in American life as gun ownership.
by Rebecca Onion, Manisha Sinha via Slate on June 14, 2016

A Historian’s Revealing Research on Race and Gun Laws

The notion that gun control has racist origins is popular in gun rights circles. Here's what's wrong with the claim.
by Saul Cornell, Mike Spies via The Trace on November 24, 2015
FDR flashing the victory sign.

Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.
by Adam Winkler via The New Republic on December 19, 2012
Lithograph of James Madison from Portrait and Biographical Album of Washtenaw County, Michigan, 1891, Wikimedia.

The Founders’ Muddled Legacy on the Right to Bear Arms Is Killing Us

A case of 18th-century politicking has stymied our ability to deal with a 21st-century crisis.
by William Hogeland via AlterNet on August 14, 2012

To Keep and Bear Arms

A challenge to the "Standard Model" scholars who hold that the Second Amendment protects individual gun rights.
by Garry Wills via New York Review of Books on September 21, 1995
Police officer, yellow tape, and abandoned bikes and lawnchairs after the Highland Park shooting.
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How Gun Violence and the Supreme Court Have Shaped Second Amendment Rights

Supreme Court rulings on gun laws highlight the struggle to balance individual rights and public safety.
via Retro Report on January 24, 2025
Reenactors working with performance artist Dread Scott in 2019 retrace the route of an 1811 rebellion of enslaved people in Louisiana.

My Gun Culture Is Not Your Gun Culture

In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.
by Chantal James via The New Republic on December 28, 2024
A man wearing a cowboy outfit shoots at a series of targets in a sand pit

Home on the (Firing) Range: Gunfight Reenactments, “Old West” Competitive Shooting, and the Myth of Authenticity

Reenactments of the frontier west, complete with cowboy shootouts on main streets, reproduce a narrative of history that is widely accepted by millions.
by Jennifer Tucker via The Panorama on November 15, 2023
Gun safety advocates rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019
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What the Supreme Court Gets Wrong About the Second Amendment

Government, wrote Alexander Hamilton, should substitute “the mild influence” of the law for “the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword.”
by Dominic Erdozain via Made By History on November 7, 2023
AR-15 trigger, with banner of AR-15 on Confederate monument behind

How the AR-15 Became an American Brand

The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.
by Emily Witt via The New Yorker on September 27, 2023
Men wielding muskets.

America’s Original Gun Control

Early in our history, firearms laws were everywhere.
by Robert J. Spitzer via The Atlantic on August 12, 2023
The Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas, consumed by flames.

What Really Happened at Waco

Thirty years later, an avoidable tragedy has spawned a politically ascendant mythology.
by Rachel Monroe via The New Yorker on April 12, 2023
A train yard in Montgomery, Alabama, 1897

The Ballad of Railroad Bill

The story of Morris Slater, aka Railroad Bill, prompts us to ask how the legend of the "American outlaw" changes when race is involved.
by Ashawnta Jackson, Burgin Mathews, John W. Roberts via JSTOR Daily on March 20, 2023
Black and white photo of protestors climbing the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021.

Ask the ‘Coupologists’: Just What Was Jan. 6 Anyway?

Without a name for it, figuring out why it happened is that much harder.
by Joshua Zeitz, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Scott Althaus, Matt Cleary, Ryan McMaken via Politico Magazine on August 19, 2022
The United States Supreme Court building.
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‘Originalism’ Only Gives the Conservative Justices One Option On a Key Gun Case

Regulations limiting armed travel in public, particularly in populous areas, stretch back over seven centuries.
by Saul Cornell via Made By History on November 3, 2021

By Bullet or Ballot: One of the Only Successful Coups in American History

David Zucchino on the white supremacist plot to take over Wilmington, North Carolina.
by David Zucchino via Literary Hub on January 9, 2020
Armed militiamen in front of a house in Jieh, Lebanon, Jan. 18, 1976. AP

How Likely Is A New American Civil War?

Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.
by Emily Whalen via Task & Purpose on October 18, 2018

New Memorial Day: Remembering Children Killed in School

It’s an exhaustive list. Far longer and deeper than you might suspect.
by Akim Reinhardt via 3 Quarks Daily on May 28, 2018

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Inside the Band's Complicated History With the South

The Southern-rock group is much different than the one Ronnie Van Zant led in the Seventies.
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine via Rolling Stone on May 15, 2018

A Most American Terrorist

The Making Of Dylann Roof.
by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah via GQ on August 21, 2017

Black Panther Women: The Unsung Activists Who Fed and Fought for Their Community

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.
by Lisa Hix, Judy Juanita via Collectors Weekly on December 2, 2016

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