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Michael A. Bellesiles (pronounced "bah-LEEL") is a US academic of American colonial and legal history, former Emory University professor, and author of books including Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture (2000).

Education and academic career

 * B.A., UC Santa Cruz 1975
 * PhD, UC Irvine 1986
 * joined Emory University faculty 1988
 * director of undergraduate studies in history, 1991–1998
 * full professorship 1999.
 * also director of Emory's Center for the Study of Violence.
 * additional teaching at UCLA
 * Senior Fellow, Stanford Humanities Institute 1998-99
 * Visiting Fellow, Newberry Library in Chicago 2001-02

2010 onwards
In 2010, Bellesiles published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education recounting his interactions with a student whose brother had been killed by a sniper in Iraq. After the story was questioned by readers, including law professor James Lindgren, the newspaper's investigation found the student had lied to Bellesiles and his teaching assistant.

In 2011, Bellesiles was teaching at Central Connecticut State University. In 2010 his book 1877: America's Year of Living Violently was published by The New Press. A review in the Journal of American History called the "old-fashioned narrative tone" of 1877 "so delightfully retro that it is almost cutting edge."

Writings by Bellesiles

 * Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier (1993)
 * "The Origins of A Gun Culture in the United States, 1760-1865," Journal of American History 425 (1996).
 * Editor, Lethal Imagination: Violence and Brutality in American History (1999)
 * "Exploding the Myth of an Armed America", Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept. 29, 2000)
 * "The Second Amendment in Action," in Carl T. Bogus and Michael A. Bellesiles (editors), The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms, The New Press (2001), ISBN 978-1-56584-699-9.
 * Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000; 2d ed., Soft Skull Press, 2003.
 * Editor, Documenting American Violence: A Sourcebook (2006), with Christopher Waldrep
 * "The Year 1877 Looks Awfully Familiar Today," History News Network (May 17, 2010)
 * "Teaching Military History in a Time of War," The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 27, 2010)