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Sept. 25, 2001
Author to speak at OU-Lancaster
Author and historian Michael Bellesiles will speak on "Arming America: Gun Laws, Gun Rights" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 in the Jeffrey Wagner Theatre at Ohio University-Lancaster.
In his recent book "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun
Culture," Bellesiles wades into the controversy over the right to keep and
bear arms." He explores how and when Americans developed their obsession
with guns "Arming America" earned Bellesiles this year's Bancroft Prize in American
History and Diplomacy from the trustees of Columbia University. Bellesiles
also is the only person to win both the Louis Pelzer Award (1986) and the
Binkley-Stephenson Award (1996) from the Organization of American Historians.
Currently a professor of history at Emory University, Bellesiles received
his doctorate in history from the University of California at Irvine and
taught at UC. He is the founding director of the violence studies program
at Emory University.
Tickets for Bellesiles's lecture are $12, with senior citizens admitted for
$10 and students for $6 and may be purchased by calling 654-6711, Ext. 640.
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