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"The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1850. [1] The short story was commissioned by George E. Wood for $100, and published in a miscellany titled The Parthenon. [1] It was reprinted in Specimens of American Literature in New York in 1866.
The book was highly acclaimed; it was noted by New York Times reviewers as one of the five most important books published in 1972. [5] It was on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks by May 1973. [5] Due to its popularity and significance, it was published in paperback in 1973 by Vintage and is available online at the Internet Archive ...
The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...
The post has been liked more than 700,000 times. Followers commended the poet for putting their feelings of grief, fear and anger into words. "Grateful for your words when words feel impossible ...
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I’m sorry. I thought you didn’t care about our sick gun culture because the victims were so often black. After Michigan State, I’ve reconsidered.
Loaded begins with Dunbar-Ortiz writing about her own experience with guns as a member of a radical left-wing "women’s action-study group" in 1970. She uses her own history of falling in, and then out of, love with guns to begin an exploration of the larger U.S. love-fest with guns, and where this comes from.
A panel from the graphic novel, with the young Geoffrey Canada at left. In the mid-2000s, Beacon Press began considering publishing an alternate graphic novel version.. Illustrator Jamar Nicholas and editor Allison Trzop created Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (A True Story in Black and White), which was released in stores on September