Pamela Haag

Award-Winning Author and Essayist

OPB TV

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May 4, 2016:“Most conversations about guns in America follow lines as deeply entrenched as wagon ruts on the Oregon Trail. They focus on the second amendment — on gun control and gun rights — on who should be able to buy what kinds of guns. Historian Pamela Haag set out to do something very different in her new book, “The Gunning of America.””
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Radio West

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April 29, 2016:
Historian Pamela Haag says there’s a mythology around American gun culture. The conventional wisdom is that since the Revolutionary War we’ve had some primal bond with our firearms. But Haag argues that our guns were once just another tool of everyday life, and that the gun industry convinced us we needed to be armed. In a new book, she follows the rise of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the marketing campaign she says created our gun culture. Haag joins us Friday to tell the story.
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The Jefferson Exchange

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April 26, 2016:
“Guns have certainly been a part of American society since the very beginning; just the existence of the Second Amendment is proof of that. But there’s a debate to be had about the relative importance of guns over the last two centuries. Historian Pamela Haag argues that guns became more important to people through effective marketing campaigns.”
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Wall Street Journal

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April 22, 2016:
“Oliver Winchester started his career in 1848 as a men’s shirt manufacturer. He did well enough that, by 1855, he could afford to invest in a fledgling New Haven firm called the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company—and start to shift over to the gun business, where his name became famous.”
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