Saul Cornell 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, most recently, A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (2006). Cornell also has a strong interest in teaching with technology and is writing a section of a new textbook, American Visions: A History of the American Nation.

Lecture topics:

• The Second Amendment Goes to Court: District of Columbia v. Heller 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

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