Patrick J. Charles in the Media
Martin Kaste, "In Today's Gun Rights Cases, Historians Are in Hot Demand," NPR, February 3, 2024.
Robert Verbruggen, "Arms and the Vote: The Politicization of Guns in America," National Review, March 30, 2023.
Will Van Sant, "The NRA's Shadowy Supreme Court Lobbying Campaign," Politico, August 5, 2022.
"NRA Convention Protests Highlight US Gun Reform Divide," Deutsche Welle, May 30, 2022.
Diarmaid Ferriter, "It Seems Life and Liberty Cannot Be Balanced in the US," Irish Times, May 27, 2022.
"Some Thoughts on Addressing Racist History in the Second Amendment Context," Second Thoughts: A Blog from the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, January 14, 2022.
“Debate with Stephen P. Halbrook: What Rights Does the Second Amendment Guarantee Outside the Home,” Federalist Society, November 17, 2021.
Q&A with Frank Wilkinson, “America’s Long History of Gun Regulation,” Bloomberg News and Washington Post, November 3, 2021.
“A Historian’s Assessment of the Anti-Immigrant Narrative in NYSRPA v. Bruen,” Second Thoughts: A Blog from the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, August 4, 2021.
“Judging the Ninth Circuits Use of History in Young v. Hawaii,” Second Thoughts: A Blog from the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, April 16, 2021.
“Militias Challenge Gun Laws in Virginia: ‘It’s About Shooting Tyrants in the Face’,” CBS News, November 12, 2020.
“NRA Origins and 1930s Politics,” C-SPAN 3 American History TV, Washington, DC, January 3, 2020.
“The Black Panthers, NRA, Ronald Reagan, Armed Extremists, and the Second Amendment,” Second Thoughts: A Blog from the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, April 8, 2019.
“The 90th Anniversary of NRA’s First Guiding Legislative Policies and the Implications for NYSRPA v. City of New York,” Second Thoughts: A Blog from the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, December 1, 2019.
“The Untold, Somewhat Embarrassing Story Behind the NRA’s Laudatory Messages from Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower,” Second Thoughts: A Blog from the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University, September 23, 2019.
“Jim Bohannon Show: Armed in America Book Talk,” Westwood One Affiliates, April 19, 2019.
Adam Hochschild, "Bang for the Buck: The American Love Affair with Guns," New York Review of Books, April 5, 2018.
“The NRA is Blaming Journalists for Gun Violence,” Slate, May 25, 2018.
“Why Does the NRA Almost Always Win?” Buzzfeed News, March 23, 2018.
"Capone, Dillinger, and Tommy Guns: Today's Debate Reminds of 1934," Associated Press, March 15, 2018.
“Conceal-Carrying the Day: We Debated Arming More People in the 1920s as a Solution to Gun Violence. The Idea Lost then, But It’s Winning Now,” Slate, March 6, 2018.
“Propaganda Machinery: How the NRA Pioneered the Right-Wing Art of Demonizing the Media,” Slate, February 28, 2018.
“Book Talk: History of Gun Rights in America,” National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, February 2018.
“How the Gun Lobby Came to Be So Powerful,” Newsweek, February 16, 2018.
