Michael A. Bellesiles (pronounced "bah-LEEL")[1] is a US academic of American colonial and legal history, former Emory University professor, and author of books including Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000).
Education and academic career
- B.A., UC Santa Cruz 1975
- PhD, UC Irvine 1986
- joined Emory University faculty 1988
- director of undergraduate studies in history, 1991–1998
- full professorship 1999.
- also director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence.
- additional teaching at UCLA
- Senior Fellow, Stanford Humanities Institute 1998-99
- Visiting Fellow, Newberry Library in Chicago 2001-02
2010 onwards
In 2010, Bellesiles published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education recounting his interactions with a student whose brother had been killed by a sniper in Iraq.[2] After the story was questioned by readers, including law professor James Lindgren,[3][4] the newspaper's investigation found the student had lied to Bellesiles and his teaching assistant.[5]
In 2011, Bellesiles was teaching at Central Connecticut State University.[6] In 2010 his book 1877: America's Year of Living Violently was published by The New Press.[7] A review in the Journal of American History called the "old-fashioned narrative tone" of 1877 "so delightfully retro that it is almost cutting edge."[8]
Writings by Bellesiles
- Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier (1993)
- "The Origins of A Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865," Journal of American History 425 (1996).
- Editor, Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (1999)
- "Exploding the Myth of an Armed America", Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept. 29, 2000)
- "The Second Amendment in Action," in Carl T. Bogus and Michael A. Bellesiles (editors), The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms, The New Press (2001), ISBN 978-1-56584-699-9.
- Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000; 2d ed., Soft Skull Press, 2003.
- Editor, Documenting American Violence: A Sourcebook (2006), with Christopher Waldrep
- "The Year 1877 Looks Awfully Familiar Today," History News Network (May 17, 2010)
- "Teaching Military History in a Time of War," The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 27, 2010)
- Bellesiles, Michael A. (2010). 1877: America's Year of Living Violently. New York: The New Press. p. 400. ISBN 978-1-59558-441-0.
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References
- ^ "How the Bellesiles Story Developed". Hnn.us. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
- ^ Basken, Paul (2010-06-27). "''The Chronicle of Higher Education''". Chronicle.com. Retrieved 2010-11-08.
- ^ Cohen, Patricia (August 3, 2010). "Scholar Emerges From Doghouse". The New York Times.
- ^ Jim Lindgren, "Serious Questions about the veracity of Michael Bellesiles's Latest Tale", The Volokh Conspiracy, 9 July 2010
- ^ Editorial endnote to Bellesiles article, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2010. Bellesiles said he regretted having unknowingly passed on a story that was inaccurate.
- ^ New Press blurb
- ^ History News Network news item, 2010.
- ^ Robert E. Weir review of 1877 in the Journal of American History 98, no. 1 (June 2011), 210-11.
Further reading
- Tom Bartlett, "Michael Bellesiles Takes Another Shot," Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3, 2010.
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