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(AP) – When the president of Ohio’s state school board posted her opposition to gun control, she used a powerful symbol to make her point: a picture of Adolf Hitler. When a well-known conservative ...

Before Robert Spitzer grew up to be an expert on American gun policy, he watched a lot of Westerns. He was raised on stories of an America built by rugged men with six-shooters on their hips … even ...

In its deficient reading of history, the Supreme Court seems to have missed this lesson.

But the issue of gun control seems impossible to tackle due to the stark reality of partisanship in Washington. After the federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, the gun industry seized on ...

Historians have found themselves caught in the middle of America's debate over gun control ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that firearms laws must be consistent with American "tradition." ...

The 21-gun salute is one of the highest military honors, performed for dignitaries, heads of state and fallen service members. But what exactly is it? And why 21 shots? In military tradition, "guns" ...

Captain Jim Williams, a member of the newly created African-American militia in South Carolina, was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1871. A placard was attached to his body: "gone to his last muster." ...

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Eugene Stoner was an ...

History is everything, the Supreme Court has ruled — at least when it comes to defining modern Second Amendment rights. As the high court ruled in 2022, the constitutionality of modern gun laws is to ...