{"id":1901,"date":"2010-07-12T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2010-07-12T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T15:54:20","slug":"michael-bellesiles-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/michael-bellesiles-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bellesiles at it again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You remember “historian” Michael Bellesiles<\/a>. He won the Bancroft Prize a decade ago for his wildly falsified history of guns in America. He lost the prize — and his reputation — when real historians of firearms like Clayton Cramer proved Bellesiles was a liar who created his “history” according to a surreal anti-gun agenda.<\/p>\n

You wonder how a man like Bellesiles can ever come back. But he keeps going like the Energizer bunny. And it seems he goes right on fabricating and prevaricating according to his own agenda.<\/p>\n

Per J.F. (with head-shaking thanks) and via the good work of Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy, here’s the first hints of doubt<\/a> and more serious questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gotta admire the patient blogger-diggers who go through the historical and news record when Bellesiles’ own professional publishers won’t bother (despite the risks they’re already taking in publishing a known fraud). But even on casual reading, before any fact-checking at all, the story Bellesiles wrote in this case reeks. It reads like a sentimental propaganda tale and its “facts” don’t mesh with anything even an average news junkie knows about the military and the Iraq war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You remember “historian” Michael Bellesiles. He won the Bancroft Prize a decade ago for his wildly falsified history of guns in America. He lost the prize — and his reputation — when real historians of firearms like Clayton Cramer proved Bellesiles was a liar who created his “history” according to a surreal anti-gun agenda. You wonder how a man like Bellesiles can ever come back. But he keeps going like the Energizer bunny. And it seems he goes right on fabricating and prevaricating according to his own agenda. Per J.F. (with head-shaking thanks) and via the good work of Jim…<\/p>\n

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