In this episode we talk with Daniel Feller, the editor of The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. We discuss his work as a documentary editor, the uses of Andrew Jackson in the age of Trump, and...
Douglas Egerton
“SHEAR Madness”
At their podcast “The Whiskey Rebellion,” Frank Cogliano and David Silkenat, American historians at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, discuss the recent controversy in the Society for the History of the Early American Republic. Listen to “SHEAR Madness” here....
When an organization of historians (SHEAR) abandons historical perspective
“I respect your work, but I disagree with what you wrote about the SHEAR plenary session.” I have received several e-mails and tweets of this nature over the past 48 hours. (Here I am writing to the folks who actually...