Alex Zakaras is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. This interview is based on his new book, The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson (Princeton University Press, 2022). JF: What led […]
Jacksonian America
The Author’s Corner with Adam Jortner
Adam Jortner is Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in the Department of History at Auburn University. This interview is based on his new book, No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: […]
Charles Sellers, RIP
I read Charles Sellers‘s 1991 book The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 during my first year of graduate school. While I learned much from the book, I was never convinced by his portrayal of American farmers as “antinomian” evangelicals who […]