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Michael A. Bellesiles (pronounced "bah-LEEL"){{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/articles/691.html |title=How the Bellesiles Story Developed |publisher=Hnn.us |date= |accessdate=2010-11-08}} 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.{{cite web|last=Basken |first=Paul |url=http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Military-History-in-a/66023 |title=''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' |publisher=Chronicle.com |date=2010-06-27 |accessdate=2010-11-08}} After the story was questioned by readers, including law professor James Lindgren,{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Patricia|title=Scholar Emerges From Doghouse|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/books/04bellisles.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 3, 2010}}[http://volokh.com/2010/07/09/serious-questions-about-the-veracity-of-michael-bellesiles%E2%80%99s-latest-tale/ Jim Lindgren, "Serious Questions about the veracity of Michael Bellesiles's Latest Tale"], The Volokh Conspiracy, 9 July 2010 the newspaper's investigation found the student had lied to Bellesiles and his teaching assistant.[http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Military-History-in-a/66023 Editorial endnote to Bellesiles article, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2010]. Bellesiles said he regretted having unknowingly passed on a story that was inaccurate.
In 2011, Bellesiles was teaching at Central Connecticut State University.[http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1763 New Press blurb] In 2010 his book 1877: America's Year of Living Violently was published by The New Press.[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/126605.html History News Network news item, 2010]. 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."Robert E. Weir review of 1877 in the Journal of American History 98, no. 1 (June 2011), 210-11.
Writings by Bellesiles
- [http://books.google.com/books?id=eVCkx7428QoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bellesiles&cd=2#v=onepage&q&f=false Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier] (1993)
- "[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(199609)83%3A2%3C425%3ATOOGCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q The Origins of A Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865]," Journal of American History 425 (1996).
- Editor, [http://books.google.com/books?id=iuAzDHsAHT0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=bellesiles&cd=5#v=onepage&q&f=false Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History] (1999)
- [http://chronicle.com/article/Exploding-the-Myth-of-an-Armed/35897 "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, [http://books.google.com/books?id=avNCBX6-HnsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bellesiles&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Documenting American Violence: A Sourcebook] (2006), with Christopher Waldrep
- [http://www.hnn.us/articles/126790.html "The Year 1877 Looks Awfully Familiar Today,"] History News Network (May 17, 2010)
- [http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Military-History-in-a/66023 "Teaching Military History in a Time of War," The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 27, 2010)]
- {{Cite book
| last1 = Bellesiles | first1 = Michael A.
| title = 1877: America's Year of Living Violently
| location = New York
| publisher = The New Press
| year= 2010
| pages = 400
| month = August
| isbn = 978-1-59558-441-0 }}
References
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Further reading
- Tom Bartlett, "Michael Bellesiles Takes Another Shot," [http://chronicle.com/article/Michael-Bellesiles-Takes/123751/ Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3, 2010].
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