Saul Cornell
Saul Cornell is Professor of History at The Ohio State
University. He specializes in the American Revolution, the
Early Republic, American Political Thought and Culture, and
Constitutional history. He is one of the nation's leading
experts on the Second Amendment and has lectured and
published widely on this controversial topic. He has studied
at the University of Sussex and has a BA from Amherst and an
MA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined
the faculty of The Ohio State University in 1991 after
teaching at College of William and Mary. In 1995 he was the
Thomas Jefferson Chair at the University of Leiden in The
Netherlands. Professor Cornell has written The Other Founders:
Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America,
1788-1828 (Institute of Early American History and Culture,
University of North Carolina Press, 1999), voted a Choice
Outstanding Academic Book for 2001 and winner of the
triennial Society of Cincinnati prize for the best work on
the Revolutionary era. He has also published Whose Right to
Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect? Bedford Book's
"Historians At Work" series edited by Edward Countryman. He
has written articles in the Journal of American History,
American Studies, William and Mary Quarterly, Constitutional
Commentary, and others. His book reviews have appeared in
the Journal of the Early Republic, Reviews in American
History, and many others. Prof. Cornell is currently writing
a section of a new textbook, American Visions: A History of
the American Nation, and a comprehensive history of the
rights to bear arms American history, to be published by
Oxford University Press. Professor Cornell has won the Dean's Award for Distinguished
Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the Colonial
Daughters of Pennsylvania Prize in Early American History.
He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American
Studies in connection with his Fulbright Lecturing Award,
and a Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies.
He has delivered invited lectures at Oxford University,
Columbia University, NYU Law School, the Capitol Historical
Society, Erasmus University, and Vanderbilt University Law
School. He has presented papers at meetings of the American
Historical Association, the American Society of Legal
History, the American Studies Association, the Organization
of American Historians, and many others. He has a strong interest in teaching with technology. He has
written about pedagogical tools in the AHA's Perspectives
and is on the Board of Advisers of Pearson's website, "The
History Place."
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Series
Books:A Well-Regulated Militia, August 2006
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