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Firearms History
Cody Firearms Museum: Reading a Collection Beyond Model Names
The museum’s own collection and exhibit resources offer a starting point for exploring firearms as historical objects.
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Firearms History
Archives, craftsmanship and the stories behind historical collections.
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Springfield Armory: The Factory Behind the Firearms
A historical look at the public armory through manufacturing, labor and the shift from handwork to industrial production.
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What Springfield’s Main Arsenal Reveals About a Collection
The armory’s defining building offers a history of storage, architecture and changing public use.
Firearms History
The Women Who Helped Keep Springfield Armory Running
A historical feature on wartime labor and the people behind a celebrated manufacturing output.
Firearms History
Coltsville Was More Than a Factory
The Hartford industrial district offers a wider view of manufacturing, housing and the Colt legacy.
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The Blue Dome: Architecture as Industrial Branding
A historical look at the visual identity of Colt’s Hartford complex and the questions an iconic building can raise.
Firearms History
Harpers Ferry’s Armory and the Landscape It Changed
The second federal armory’s history links waterpower, manufacturing investment and the destruction of the Civil War.
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What Archaeology Adds to Armory History
Buried evidence can change how readers understand a manufacturing landscape that no longer stands.
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John Hall and the Pursuit of Interchangeable Parts
A historical profile focused on industrial consistency rather than a lone-inventor legend.
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John Garand’s Career Before and Beyond the M1
The inventor’s biography connects textile work, measurement and a long public-service engineering career.
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Why Experimental Firearms Belong in the Museum Story
Springfield’s experimental collection shows why the history of an idea is larger than the models ultimately adopted.
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The story behind the steel.
Why archives, museum records and bibliographies matter when exploring firearms history.