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|name = Michael A. Bellesiles |
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|birth_date = 1954 |
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|occupation = [[Historian]] |
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|alma_mater = [[University of California at Santa Cruz]] <small>([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]])</small><br />[[University of California, Irvine]] <small>([[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]])</small> |
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|institutions = [[Emory University]]<br />[[Stanford University]]<br />[[Newberry Library]]<br />[[Central Connecticut State University]] |
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'''Michael A. Bellesiles''' (pronounced "buh-LEEL")<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/books/04bellisles.html |title=Scholar Emerges From Doghouse |publisher=nytimes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-06}}</ref> (Born 1954)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/books/04bellisles.html |title=Scholar Emerges From Doghouse |publisher=nytimes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-06}}</ref> is an American historian specializing in the [[Colonial history of the United States|colonial]] and [[legal history]] of the United States. |
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==Academic Career== |
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Bellesiles graduated with a B.A. from the [[University of California at Santa Cruz]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Michael-Bellesiles-Takes-An/123751/ |title=Michael Bellesiles Takes Another Shot |publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date= |accessdate=2012-01-06}}</ref> in 1975 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3413100026/bellesiles-michael.html |title=Bellesiles, Contemporary Authors}}</ref> and received his Ph.D. from the [[University of California, Irvine]] in 1986<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3413100026/bellesiles-michael.html |title=Bellesiles, Contemporary Authors}}</ref>, advised by [[Christine Heyrman]], author of ''Southern Cross''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/articles/1488.html |title=HNN}}</ref> He subsequently joined the faculty at [[Emory University]], rising to the rank of full professor before resigning in 2002 following a scandal over ''[[Arming America]]''. Bellesiles has also taught at [[UCLA]], [[The University of Augsburg]], [[Oxford University]], and currently teaches at [[Central Connecticut State University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1822 |title=The New Press - A People’s History of the U.S. Military}}</ref> |
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Bellesiles has published numerous articles and books. Bellesiles' forthcoming book, ''A People’s History of the U.S. Military: ordinary soldiers reflect on their experience of war, from the American Revolution to Afghanistan'' will be released this year by [[The New Press]], which also published his 2010 book ''1877: America's Year of Living Violently''. ''A People’s History of the U.S. Military'' is part of the People's History series published by [[The New Press]], which began with [[Howard Zinn]]'s ''[[A People's History of the United States]]''. |
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==Honors== |
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* Binkley-Stephenson Award (1996) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepress.org/columns/display/2/2002/69 |title=The Free Press}}</ref> |
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* Stanford Humanities Center fellowship (1998-99)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1998/June/erjune.22/6_22_98Grants.html |title=Emory Report}}</ref> |
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* Newberry Library, Chicago, National Endowment for the Humanitites fellowship (2000)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/articles/691.html |title=HNN}}</ref> |
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* Bancroft Prize, Columbia University (2001; rescinded, 2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hnn.us/articles/691.html |title=HNN}}</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
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===<small>Monographs</small>=== |
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* ''Revolutionary outlaws : Ethan Allen and the struggle for independence on the early American frontier'' (1993) |
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* ''Discussing The American promise : a survival guide for first-time teaching assistants'' (1998) |
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* ''[[Arming America: the origins of a national gun culture]]'' (2000) |
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* ''Weighed in an even balance'' (2003) |
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* ''1877 : America's year of living violently''. (2010) |
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===<small>Edited</small>=== |
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* ''Lethal imagination : violence and brutality in American history'' (1999) |
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===<small>Co-Authored</small>=== |
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* ''The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms'' (2001) |
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* ''Documenting American Violence: A Sourcebook'' (2005) |
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===<small>Co-Edited</small>=== |
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* ''Bibliobase : custom coursepack for history'' |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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[[Category:1954 births]] |
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[[Category:University of California, Santa Cruz faculty and alumni]] |
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[[Category:University of California, Irvine alumni]] |
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[[Category:Central Connecticut State University Teachers]] |
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[[Category:American Historians]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:The New Press]] |
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[[Category:Connecticut Authors]] |
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