Disarming Errors

CLAYTON E. CRAMER & DAVE KOPEL

Michael Bellesiles, a professor of history at Emory University, has written a startling book that claims to demolish many myths about the gun culture of pre-Civil War America. Hailed as a major work of revisionist history, it is getting a lot of attention: Bellesiles has been cited, profiled, or reviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, National Journal, Chicago Tribune, London Telegraph, The Economist, and the New York Times Book Review, which featured a fawning cover essay by Garry Wills.

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Clayton E. Cramer

Clayton E. Cramer teaches history at the College of Western Idaho. His ninth book, Lock, Stock, and Barrel, was published in 2018.

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CLAYTON E. CRAMER & DAVE KOPEL

Michael Bellesiles, a professor of history at Emory University, has written a startling book that claims to demolish many myths about the gun culture of pre-Civil War America. Hailed as a major work of revisionist history, it is getting a lot of attention: Bellesiles has been cited, profiled, or reviewed by the New York Times, Washington Post, National Journal, Chicago Tribune, London Telegraph, The Economist, and the New York Times Book Review, which featured a fawning cover essay by Garry Wills.