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Associate Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong. See profile: https://www.history.cuhk.edu.hk/profile/noah-shusterman/
Carl Bogus’s 1998 “The Hidden History of the Second Amendment” was one of the first articles to bring slavery into the heart of Second Amendment scholarship. Bogus argued there that a need “to assure the Southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system by using its newly acquired constitutional authority over the militia […]
When I began the research for my recent book, Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment, my goal was to understand the origins of American gun laws. I was hardly alone in this, of course; there is an enormous amount of contemporary research on the original goals of the Second Amendment, […]