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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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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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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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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April 25, 2016:
“Guns are often associated with American identity – from Revolutionary War militias to cowboys of the Wild West. A new examination of the firearms industry reveals how sales and marketing strategies shaped U-S gun culture.”
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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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April 14, 2016
“After Words with Pamela Haag”
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March 21, 2016:
“The Gunning of America fundamentally revises the history of guns and gun culture in America. By looking at the gun industry archives, it shows how the gun culture was made and produced.”
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March 21, 2016:
“What does a haunted house in America have to do with gun control? This question animates Pamela Haag’s newest book The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (April 19), a history of the gun business in the late 19th century focused on the Winchester family.”
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March 13, 2016:
“No other developed country embraces firearms the way ours does. The more we argue about them, the more it seems their mystique grows. But just how guns became part of our cultural DNA has been a long journey. And that is where Lee Cowan begins.”
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