Michael bellesiles biography

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Michael A. Bellesiles teaches history at Central Connecticut State University.
Bellesiles's Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture is among the most controversial works of history written in the last century.

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Michael Bellesiles: Martyr?

History has its fair share of persecuted geniuses, men who were ahead of their time and made to pay for it. There's the hemlocked Socrates, the house-arrested Galileo, the exiled Rousseau. And to this list of giants it seems that we are now expected to add the name of Michael Bellesiles.

Mr. Bellesiles is the former Emory professor who shook the scholarly world in 2000 with his book"Arming America." An academic bombshell, the tome went against long-held beliefs by claiming that few colonial Americans actually owned guns. This set off a riotous public debate over whether the Second Amendment was designed to protect individual gun rights. Mr. Bellesiles was showered with prizes and media praise, becoming an instant academic star.

That is, until his peers started looking into that little thing called research. Reputable scholars in the ensuing months tore apart his work on probate and military records, travel narratives, and other documents. Mr. Bellesiles, when asked to explain, provided ever-more outlandish excuses: that his notes had been lost in a

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Bellesiles, Michael A.

PERSONAL: Surname pronounced Ba-lease. Education:University of California—Santa Cruz, B.A., 1975; University of California—Irvine, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Soft Skull Press, 71 Bond St., Brooklyn, NY 11217.

CAREER: Educator and historian. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, associate professor until December, 2002; teacher in Scotland beginning c. 2003.

AWARDS, HONORS: Binkley-Stephenson Award, 1996; Stanford Humanities Center fellowship, 1998-99; National Endowment for the Humanitites fellowship, 2000; Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, for Arming America, 2001 (rescinded, 2002).

WRITINGS:

Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allan and the Struggle for Independence in the Early American Frontier, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1993.

(Editor) Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in History,New York University Press (New York, NY), 1999.

Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000, revised edition, Soft Skull Press (Brooklyn, NY), 2003.

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Michael Bellesiles: The historian who can't shoot straight?

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[GunCite analyzes a sample of Bellesiles's work (and see for yourself his flawed and misleading citations -- it's more than just differences in "interpretation" of historical documents).]
More Bellesiles: "Cite Correction"
[Official announcement, by the Columbia University Board of Trustees, rescinding Bellesiles's Bancroft Prize.]
The Bancroft and Bellesiles, History News Network (December 14, 2002).
Hillel, Italie, Columbia Rescinds History Prize for Book, Austin American-Statesman (December 13, 2002).
Oct. 25: Michael Bellesiles Resigns from Emory Faculty
"Dr. Michael Bellesiles has resigned from his position as Professor of History at Emory University, effective December 31, 2002. Emory University has released a statement accepting Dr. Bellesiles's resignation and the report of an outside Investigative Committee appointed by Emory to investigate allegations concerning Dr. Bellesiles's research in his book, Arming America. Dr. Bellesiles has also issued a statemen