Each year the Society for US Intellectual History is proud to sponsor at least one session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. For 2024, we sent a few of our best to San Francisco. Andrew McKevitt organized a brilliant and timely roundtable, “Beyond the Second Amendment: Rethinking U.S. Gun History,” featuring remarks from chair Brian DeLay and esteemed commenters Cari Babitzke, Josh Aiken, and Jennifer Tucker. “What would a history of guns in the United States look like beyond the Second Amendment?”  That was the central question of the roundtable–one McKevitt posed to upend the way scholars Read more