The Legend of Sarah Winchester, May 22, 2016:
“Sarah Winchester (born 1840) was the heiress to the Winchester Estate with a 50% holding of the Winchester Repeating Rifle Company. She used her vast fortune to construct a mansion for 38 consecutive years.”
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The Gun Myth, May 22, 2016:
“The Western. The 2nd Amendment. Guns are a part of our national DNA – like apple pie and baseball. Pamela Haag says not so fast. In her book “The Gunning of America,” she argues that early gun barons –with iconic names like Colt and Remington — created the American gun culture.”
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Talk of the Town
Larry Rifkin, Waterbury, CT, May 19, 2016:
Larry Rifkin interviews Pamela Haag.
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Florida NPR
Topical Currents, May 16, 2016:
“She addresses the common belief that firearms have a special bond with Americans, which stems from the Revolutionary War and the Constitution.”
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RT Question More
May 14, 2016:
“Thom discusses the business and the making of American gun culture with historian Pamela Haag, author of the new book “The Gunning of America.””
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Wisconsin National Public Radio
Joy Cardin, May 13, 2016:
“America’s passion for guns did not begin with the Second Amendment but with advertisements and promotions from firearm manufacturers, according to our guest. She join us to examine the history of America’s gun culture and the role it plays today.”
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OPB TV
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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Hartford Courant
May 3, 2016:
The legend of Sarah Winchester, the troubled heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company of New Haven, intrigued Pamela Haag. She learned of this mysterious tale while earning her doctorate in history from Yale in 1995.
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Radio West
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
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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