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The Chronicle of Higher Education has collected all of its coverage of the controversy over Michael Bellesiles' Arming America : The Origins of a National Gun Culture -- including an open Colloquy on the controversy and letters to editor.

-- Bill Horne, Managing Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Small Press Republishes Controversial Book on America's Gun Culture (1/9/2004)

Historian Resigns After Report Questions His Gun Research (11/8/2002)

Letters: When Critics Start Shooting Holes in a Prize-Winning Book About Guns (3/1/2002)

Colloquy: How adequately have historians responded to the controversy over Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture and allegations that some of the information in the book is incorrect? What is the significance of the controversy? (February 2002)

Did the Shootouts Over 'Arming America' Divert Attention From the Real Issues? (2/1/2002)

Scholar Issues Defense of His History of Guns in America (11/16/2001)

Letters: Questions About Data on Gun Ownership (10/19/2001)

Emory Asks Historian to Defend His Book on Guns in America (10/12/2001)

Book on America's Gun Culture Has Its Author Watching His Back 5/10/2001

Historian's Book on Colonial-Era Gun Ownership Is Challenged (9/21/2001)

Letters: The Number of Guns in America (10/27/2000)

Excerpt from Arming America in The Chronicle Review: Exploding the Myth of an Armed America (9/29/2000)