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“Guns, Germs, and Public History: A Conversation with Jennifer Tucker,” Interview by David Serlin, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 57 (1) Special Issue: Going Public: Mobilizing, Materializing, and Contesting Social Science History, ed. Alexandra Rutherford (Winter 2021).

“Guns, Germs, and Public History: A Conversation with Jennifer Tucker,” Interview by David Serlin, in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 57 (1) Special Issue: Going Public: Mobilizing, Materializing, and Contesting Social Science History, ed. Alexandra Rutherford (Winter 2021).[Published online on July 7, 2020] [Free to read at Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsDecember 8, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

The Conversation: Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Lays Bare the Bizarre Role of Guns in American Culture

Long before the numbing regularity of school shootings, the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the current Supreme Court debate over whether to further relax gun laws, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was sounding the alarm about the role of guns in American culture. Sondheim, who died on Nov. 26, 2021, had Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsDecember 7, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

The Conversation: Why Are Medieval Weapons Laws at the Center of a US Supreme Court Case?

In the opening scene of “The Last Duel,” the new film set in 14th-century France, a herald announces the rules for conduct at a tournament to the death. He declares that no members of the public – whatever their social background – are allowed to bring weapons to the event. Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsNovember 5, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

Panelist on Quantifying the Lethality of Firearms in Historical Terms, Oct. 21, 2021.

On October 21, 2021, I was a panelist at a symposium on “The 2nd Amendment at the Supreme Court” hosted by the UC Davis School of Law. I presented a paper that called for using a common metric for assessing the lethality of firearms in historical times, developed by Colonel Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsOctober 21, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

CNN Opinion: Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that may result in vastly expanded rights to carry firearms in public, I argue in this op-ed that we need a “common vocabulary and a shared metric for quantifying the lethality of firearms in historical terms when approaching Second Amendment policy and Read more…

By admin, 3 yearsOctober 20, 2021 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

The Washington Post: How the NRA Hijacked History

Amid renewed national debate over gun control, I write in The Washington Post about how concerted advocacy from groups such as the National Rifle Association has popularized a new interpretation of American history to fit a modern gun rights narrative, threatening to lead the Supreme Court further astray as it Read more…

By admin, 5 yearsSeptember 9, 2019 ago

Firearms Technology, Law, and Culture

Wyoming Public Media: Renovated Firearms Museum Wants to Add Context to Gun History

I was interviewed on Wyoming Public Media about the opening of the newly renovated Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, which tells the story of the role of firearms in American culture. I was among the academic historians enlisted by the museum to provide important Read more…

By admin, 6 yearsJune 28, 2019 ago

Exhibitions

Exhibition script reader for 2019 Cody Firearms Museum renovation, Buffalo Bill Center of the American West, Cody, Wyoming, Spring 2019.

By admin, 6 yearsJanuary 8, 2019 ago

Edited Books

Tucker, co-edited with Margaret Vining and Barton Hacker, A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment (Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press and Penguin Books, 2019).

This collection of essays offers a glimpse into how and why historical arguments have been marshaled on both sides of today’s debate over the Second Amendment. The debate over the Second Amendment has unveiled new and useful information about the history of guns and their possession and meaning in the Read more…

By admin, 6 yearsJanuary 8, 2019 ago

Articles

“Display of Arms: A Roundtable Discussion about the Public Exhibition of Firearms and Their History,” Technology and Culture, Vol. 59, Issue 3 (July 2018): 719-769.

Tucker, ed. “Display of Arms: A Roundtable Discussion about the Public Exhibition of Firearms and Their History,” with Glenn Adamson, Jonathan S. Ferguson, Josh Garrett-Davis, Erik Goldstein, Ashley Hlebinsky, David D. Miller, & Suzanne Slavick, Technology and Culture, Vol. 59, Issue 3 (July 2018): 719-769. [Free online access through JHU Read more…

By admin, 7 yearsJuly 8, 2018 ago