A history lesson for historian (Bellesiles LIES)

SF Chronicle ^ | 3/2/2002 | Sam McManis

[Joe Brower]

Martinez -- Don't let her lilting voice and prim, schoolmarmish demeanor fool you. You mess with Betty Maffei, you dis her volunteer staff at Contra Costa Historical Society, you have the temerity to cast aspersions on their filing acumen, and you're in for a world of hurt, my friend.

[Joe Brower]

Well, after all this, I'm sure that Mikey B. will be falling over himself to give back his prize, now that his blatant fraud has been exposed about twenty times now.

Not.

[Joe Brower]

[xsmommy]

You go, Betty.

i second that one!

[Grut]

Bellesiles (Bell-EEL)

Also (just for fun), "Belial".

[randog]

Bellesiles' page at Emory U:

__________________________________

Michael A. Bellesiles
Professor

Bowden 222
Department of History
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-4467 (Office)
404-727-4959 (Fax)

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Michael A. Bellesiles, Professor (B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz, 1975; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1986); early American history, focusing on the Revolution, the early Republic, and constitutional law. Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence in the Early American Frontier (1993); BiblioBase (1996); (co-ed.) Ethan Allen and his Kin: Correspondence, 1772-1819 (1998); (ed.) Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (1999); and Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000), which was awarded the Bancroft Prize.

As the founding director of Emory’s Violence Studies Program, I remain interested in an interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of violence in American society. I am currently working on a US history textbook, a history of American violence, and a study of forced sterilization in twentieth-century America. I teach courses on the American Revolution, legal history, criminal justice, violence in film and history, and historical imagination. See my homepage: http://www.emory.edu/HISTORY/BELLESILES/

[Logophile]

"Our reputation wasn't at stake -- his was," Maffei said. "Maybe he thought no one would check a small history center. But he was just a rude young man."

Rude and dishonest.

[Physicist]

As the founding director of Emory’s Violence Studies Program, I remain interested in an interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of violence in American society. I am currently working on a US history textbook, a history of American violence, and a study of forced sterilization in twentieth-century America. I teach courses on the American Revolution, legal history, criminal justice, violence in film and history, and historical imagination.

"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
Every century but this one, every country but his own."

[William Tell]

randog posted the following re:Be-liar: "I teach courses on the American Revolution, legal history, criminal justice, violence in film and history, and historical imagination."

I think his historical imagination has gotten out of hand.

[RogueIsland]

quoth the revered New York Review of Books: "Bellesiles will have done us all a service if his book reduces the credibility of the fanatics who endow the Founding Fathers with posthumous membership in what has become a cult of the gun

Wow, you don't think this reviewer went into his review with any preconceived agenda, do you?

[counterrevolutionary]

The Newberry Library has just awarded Bellesiles a $30,000 NEH grant to write another book on guns.

No, I'm not kidding.

[counterrevolutionary]

Even more fun. Bellesiles will be presenting a paper at the Newberry's Seminar in Early American History.

May 30, 2002—Michael Bellesiles , Emory University
"American Gun Laws: The Regulation of Firearm Use and Ownership, 1607-2000"

[counterrevolutionary]

Correction: I said they had "just" awarded this grant. It was awarded last year.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWS

Michael Bellesiles
Professor of History, Emory University
American Gun Laws: The Regulation of Firearm Use and Ownership, 1607-2000

[Timesink]

The Newberry Library has just awarded Bellesiles a $30,000 NEH grant to write another book on guns.

I just started a new thread about this sad fact here.

[KC Burke]

Sounds like a chance for Chicago Second Amendment backers and Freepers to have their opinions heard.

[Hagrid]

It's not a NEW grant to Bellesiles. It was awarded a year ago.

[Hagrid]

Actually, this would backfire. The ONLY argument that has been working for him is that the NRA is out to get him and has been harassing him. Harassing him plays into his hands.