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...
Over at The Washington Post, Harvard historian Joyce Chaplin reflects on how Andrew Jackson handled the the arrival of cholera on American shores. Here is a taste: At the time, it was a standard and orthodox belief that any disease was...
Education and Culture: A Critical Review is running my review of Larrie Ferreiro’s Brothers in Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It. Education and Culture is John Wilson’s new venture. For over two decades Wilson edited Books and...
Last night while scanning Facebook I ran across Richard Bernstein’s take on this whole Joyce Chaplin-Ted Cruz debate. He was gracious enough to let me share it here. Bernstein is a historian who teaches law at New York Law School....
As far as I can tell, this is the first thing I have read from Joyce Chaplin since Ted Cruz attacked her on Twitter. As I have now said a couple of times, I hope she will write something to...
Perhaps you have seen the Twitter battle taking place between Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Joyce Chaplin. Cruz ran for POTUS In 20016. Chaplin is an early American historian and chair of Harvard’s American Studies program Chaplin’s claim that the...
