March 1996 Second Thoughts on the Second Amendment At the heart of the gun-control debate is a fundamental tension between republicanism and individualism by Wendy Kaminer CALM ...
Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.
The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...
A look at the people and events that shaped the Civil War and Reconstruction. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2. Come along with American ...
But from 1861 to 1918—from the Civil War to World War I—we were a lever-gun nation. Lever-action rifles took us from the era of the muzzleloader to the modern bolt-gun. Nor have we forgotten that.
ALBANY ‒ Over the past decade, the popularity of the Armalite Rifle-15 in its many variants has not only become the most popular rifle sold in the United States but ...