{{short description|American historian}}
'''Saul Cornell''' is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University. He was professor of history at Ohio State University and the director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute.<ref>[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Well-Regulated-Militia/Saul-Cornell/e/9780195147865 ''A Well-Regulated Militia'' by Saul Cornell - Barnes&Noble.com]</ref>
== Life == He received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/history_department/faculty/cornell_cv.pdf |title=Saul Cornell - Curriculum Vitae |access-date=2010-12-27 |archive-date=2020-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515203402/https://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/history_department/faculty/cornell_cv.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and is an authority on early American constitutional thought.<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/history_department/faculty/saul_cornell_72614.asp Saul Cornell - Fordham University Faculty]</ref>
He is the author of ''The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America'' (1999) for which he won the 2001 Cox Book Prize and ''A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America'' (2006). He is also the co-author of many other publications, including the textbook ''Visions of America: A History of the United States'' (2009). Recently, he authored an article on Salon regarding the 2011 Tucson shooting and Gun Control.<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2011/01/15/saul_cornell_guns/ "What the "right to bear arms" really means" by Saul Cornell]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cornell |first=Saul |date=2021-11-10 |title=The Supreme Court’s Latest Gun Case Made a Mockery of Originalism |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/11/bruen-supreme-court-guns-mockery-originalism.html |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
In addition to book writing, he has contributed to numerous Amicus curiae briefs in court cases involving the 2nd Amendment.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/history_department/faculty/cornell_cv.pdf |title=Saul Cornell - Curriculum Vitae |access-date=2010-12-27 |archive-date=2020-05-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515203402/https://www.fordham.edu/images/academics/history_department/faculty/cornell_cv.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Most notably, he is the co-author of an Amicus Brief supporting Washington D.C.'s hand gun ban filed in ''District of Columbia v. Heller'',<ref>[http://www.abanet.org/publiced/preview/briefs/pdfs/07-08/07-290_PetitionerAmCuRakove.pdf Brief in Support of Petitioner]</ref> and ''New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-02 |title=Should New Yorkers Be Allowed to Carry Concealed Guns? |url=https://news.fordham.edu/videos-and-podcasts/should-new-yorkers-be-allowed-to-carry-concealed-guns/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=Fordham Newsroom |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Works ==
* Jennifer D Keene; Saul Cornell; Edward T O'Donnell ''Visions of America: A History of the United States'' (2009) {{ISBN|9780321066879}} * ''A Well-Regulated Militia: the Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America'' (2006) {{ISBN|9780195341034}} * ''The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America'' (1999) {{ISBN|9780807825037}}
==References== <references/>
==External links== *[https://books.google.com/books?ei=1KbWSu-TDZGutgfVgvyCBw&ct=more-books-link&q=inauthor:Saul+inauthor:Cornell Saul Cornell - Google Books] *[http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/history_department/faculty/saul_cornell_72614.asp Saul Cornell - Fordham University Faculty]
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