Saul Cornell is Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University. He specializes in early American history and legal/Constitutional history. He is author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999) and A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (2006), among other works. He also has a strong interest in teaching with technology and is writing a section of a new textbook, Visions of America: A History of the United States.

Lecture topics:

• The Second Amendment Goes to Court: District of Columbia v. Heller and the Perils of Law Office History
• The Second Amendment Meets the Fourteenth Amendment: McDonald v. Chicago and the Future of Gun Control
• Popular Constitutionalism and the Origins of American Law: The Original Understanding of Originalism
• Re-envisioning Early American History: Rethinking the American History Survey
• The Alien and Sedition Crisis Revisited: Civil Liberties, National Security, and America's First Constitutional Crisis
• An Eighteenth Century Constitution in a Twenty-First Century World? What Would the Founders Say?

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