Presentations

Day 1 (23 August)

Windows into Aviation History: Aircraft Guns in the National Collection
Christopher Moore (Museum Specialist, National Air & Space Museum)

Buckshot & Beehive: Anti-personnel Cartridges for the M79 & M203 Grenade Launchers in the Vietnam War
N.R. Jenzen-Jones (Director, Armament Research Services)

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the First World War
Matthew Moss (independent researcher)

Flintlock ‘Assault Weapons’: A Critical Review
Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery, Royal Armouries)

Artifacts from the Confederate Blockade of the Potomac & 19th C. Massachusetts Militia Artillery
Kater Miller (Curator, National Museum of the Marine Corps)

Day 2 (24 August)

Dutch Military Muskets, 1599–1795
Mathieu Willemsen (Curator, Nationaal Militair Museum)

Beyond the Bang: A Public History Approach to Early Modern Arms
Dr Matthew Keagle (Curator, Fort Ticonderoga)

Crafting Coltsville: Creating the Historical Resource Study for the National Park Service
Dr Leah Glaser (Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University)

18th & 19th c. Gun Manufacturing in New England
Dr Jonathan Obert (Associate Professor of Political Science, Amherst College)
Dr Scott Gac (Professor of History and American Studies, Trinity College [Connecticut])

The Earliest Hawken Rifle? A Re-examination
Nathan Bender (Reference Assistant, McCracken Research Library)

Finding R.H. Weakley
Susan Ashman (Historic Weapons Supervisor, Springfield Armory NHS)

Carolina Guns: 18th C. English Trade Guns
James Mullins

North of the Border: An Examination of 18th to 19th Century Canadian Gunsmiths and their Firearms
Justin Baird (independent researcher)

Symposium Report

Danny Michael, ‘Report: The 2023 Kurt Swanson Bucholz Arsenals of History Symposium’, Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms, Vol. IX No. 2, pp. 77–82, <https://doi.org/10.52357/armax47378>.
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Other Publications

A list of other publications arising from or otherwise connected to research presented at this symposium is provided below. This list is based on submissions from participants and may be incomplete.

Joel Bohy, ‘Siege of Boston Powder Horns: History and Art’, American Society of Arms Collectors Bulletin, No. 125 (2022), pp. 14–26.
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Rachel Bolton-King, Grave N5 [documentary] (Tbilisi: Rustavi 2, 2022).
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N.R. Jenzen-Jones, ‘The LWL–Olin Shotshell Adaptor for the M79 Grenade Launcher’, Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms, Vol. IX No. 2 (2023), pp. 59–76, <doi.org/10.52357/armax28608>.
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Matthew Moss, ‘The Winchester Repeating Arms Company’s Exports to Foreign Powers During the First World War’, Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms (2021), pp. 37–60, <https://doi.org/10.52357/armax06130>.
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Jonathon Krisko & Andrew Stolinski, ‘The Truth About “Trench Guns”’, American Rifleman (17 February 2024).
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