NOW EVEN THE EMORY WHEEL IS CONTRADICTING BELLESILES:

Professor of History Michael Bellesiles may have lied to the Wheel on at least two occasions last week while responding to questions regarding the University’s investigation into his work on guns in early America.

Bellesiles denied that he received “offers of help” from James Lindgren, a professor of law at Northwestern University (Ill.), when Lindgren initially learned that Bellesiles’ book, Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture concluded gun ownership rates were so low they were “mathematically impossible.”

Yet the Wheel has obtained an e-mail confirming Lindgren wrote Bellesiles on Nov. 11, 2000, offering to assist the Emory professor.

Boy, if you can’t trust a historian. . . .