Time Sensitive : FYI!
Ron Lewenberg wrote:
I am pleased to announce that the panel discussion refuting Professor
Michael Bellesiles for his flawed work, Arming America, will be aired
following segment on the Bancroft Award. The dual segment begins at
8:50 on Sunday, 4/29.
For information on the segment please see:
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=
152169052
For the schedule please see:
http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dschedule&month=
04&day=29&year=2001
I introduced the panel. The moderator was Andrew Massimilian, a graduate
of Columbia Business School.
The panelists were:
-Clayton Cramer an author of books on the history of firearms in America,
most recently of “Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling,
Southern Violence, and Moral Reform.”
-Stephen Halbrook, the constitutional law attorney, who argued Printz V US
before the US Supreme Court and author of the books “That Every Man Be
Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right and Freedmen, the Fourteenth
Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms.” And
-Professor John Lott, author of “More Guns, Less Crime.”
For more information on the controversy surrounding ProfessorBellesiles’
book, please see
“Arm-Twisting: A historian’s book makes the case for gun control.”
Other scholars hotly dispute his claims.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrassel/?id=85000800
“Shots in the Dark: Bellesiles Arming America is novel in both senses”
http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/books/books-cramer092300.shtml
“Concealed Weapons”
The controversial book Arming America has the facts all wrong.
http://reason.com/0101/cr.jm.concealed.html
Sincerely,
Ron Lewenberg
President, Columbia College Conservative Club
