Arsenals of History Symposium

2024 Kurt Swanson Bucholz Arsenals of History

Cody Firearms Museum Symposium

Wednesday–Friday, August 28–30, 2024

8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. each day
Coe Auditorium

The Arsenals of History symposium, open only to museum professionals and firearms researchers, features speakers from around the world, who will focus on firearms history, museum practice, and ongoing research within the field.

Registration includes 26 presentations and lunch each day. The first presentation begins at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 28; the last begins at 3:45 p.m. on Friday, August 30.

The registration fee of $150 includes access to the full schedule of presentations and lunch all three days. The museum has a small room block available if you contact the Hampton Inn in Cody directly.

Remember, this symposium is exclusively for museum professionals and firearms researchers. Advanced registration is required.

CLICK HERE for a PDF of the following schedule.

Wednesday, August 28

8:30 a.m. – N.R. Jenzen-Jones: Fragments of History: Non-metallic Hand Grenades from Antiquity to the Second World War

9 a.m. – Matthew Keagle: Set Dressing to Primary Source: Understanding and Interpreting the Artillery Collection of Fort Ticonderoga

10:15 a.m. – Rachel Bolton-King: Facts & Fallacies of the Rifling Revolution

11:15 a.m. – Isabelle Lobley: Conserving 100 Firearms in Two Years: The Magazine Project at Colonial Williamsburg

12:30 p.m. – John B. Weaver: A Martial Ideal or “The Most Unruly Part of the Army?” Continental Riflemen, 1775–1777

1 p.m. – Mathieu Willemsen: Dutch Muskets and Their Manufacture

2:15 p.m. – Joel Bohy: Objects Are Evidence: The “Boston Massacre” Musket Balls

3:15 p.m. – Zachary Distel: Revolutionary War Dutch Sea Service Pistols

Thursday, August 29

8:30 a.m. – Nathan E. Bender: Hawken Rifles and Pistols of the Cody Firearms Museum

9 a.m. – Rachel Parikh: Of the Highest Caliber: A Brief History of South Asian Firearms

10 a.m. – Erik Goldstein: A Most Remarkable Family Collection of Arms

11:15 a.m. – Andrew Fagal: The Second Amendment at Sea: Regulating the Armed Merchant Trade in the Early Republic

12:30 p.m. – Ashley Hlebinsky: Haunted by the Past: Sarah Winchester and Guns in American Culture

1 p.m. – Khan Rooney: On Ballard Rifles, Fenians, and Excursions Thereof

2:15 p.m. – Erik Farrell: USS Monitor and the XI-Inch Dahlgren: History, Recovery, and Conservation

3:15 p.m. – Michael Murphy: Historical Considerations in Forensic Firearm Examination

3:45 p.m. – L.K. Bertram: The Calamity Club: Researching Prostitutes and their Firearms in the Old West, 1860–1900

Friday, August 30

8:30 a.m. – Bert Barnett: Silent Guns: The Field Artillery of Gettysburg’s Memorial Period

9 a.m. – Justin Baird: Viking Visionaries: The lives of Ole Krag & Erik Jorgensen

10:15 a.m. – John Byck: Firearms Decorated by Tiffany & Co.: New Discoveries at The Met

11:15 a.m. – Ben Nicolson: The Nitty Gritty of Writing a Gun Book

12:30 p.m. – Logan Metesh: James Henry Burton: A “Most Unscrupulous Partisan” with “Untiring Skill & Diligence”

1 p.m. – Joseph Fink: A Final Effort for the M1 Garand: Harrington and Richardson’s Conversion

2:15 p.m. – Johnathan Ferguson: Weapons of Mass Seduction? Curating the ‘Re:Loaded’ Exhibition at the Royal Armouries

3:15 p.m. – Andrew Stolinski: Shedding Light on Savage Slides

3:45 p.m. – Matthew Moss: Vintage Weapons In a Modern War