Saul Cornell, is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at
Fordham University
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. He was Professor of history at
Ohio State University
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and the Director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the
John Glenn Institute.
Life
He received a
PhD from the
University of Pennsylvania
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in 1989 and is now one of the nation’s leading authorities on early American constitutional thought.
He is the author of ''The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America'' (1999) for which he won the 2001
Cox Book Prize and ''A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America'' (2006). He is also the co-author of many other publications, including the textbook ''Visions of America: A History of the United States'' (2009). Recently, he authored an article on
Salon
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regarding the
2011 Tucson shooting
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and
Gun Control
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.
In addition to book writing, he has contributed to numerous
Amicus curiae
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briefs in court cases involving the 2nd Amendment. Most notably, he is the co-author of an Amicus Brief supporting Washington D.C.'s hand gun ban filed in
District of Columbia v. Heller
''District of Columbia v. Heller'', 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, unconnected with service i ...
. and
''New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen''.
Works
* Jennifer D Keene; Saul Cornell; Edward T O'Donnell ''Visions of America: A History of the United States'' (2009)
* ''A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America'' (2006)
* ''The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America'' (1999)
References
External links
Saul Cornell - Google BooksSaul Cornell - Fordham University Faculty
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Fordham University faculty
Ohio State University faculty
University of Pennsylvania alumni
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male non-fiction writers