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Interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb

Last month, I had the privilege of sitting down with C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and being interviewed for his show, …

Would Andrew Jackson Have Prevented the Civil War?

Yesterday, I addressed Donald Trump’s statements about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War. A lot of other historians since then …

Is Donald Trump Right About Andrew Jackson and the Civil War?

In an interview with Salena Zito airing today, President Donald Trump makes a couple of curious observations about Andrew Jackson …

The Little Magician Needs You!

As regular readers know, Cumberland University launched the Papers of Martin Van Buren project last February. We have spent the …

Trump’s Visit to The Hermitage

I had the good fortune of spending a couple of days at The Hermitage this week. On Tuesday evening, the …

Books for Fall 2017

Introduction to Historical Methods Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide, 4th ed. (Wiley …

Donald Trump Is Not a Twenty-First Century Andrew Jackson

I’ve written about the Trump-Jackson comparison several times (here, here, and here), so when I was asked to contribute a piece on it to the OAH‘s The American Historian, I took the opportunity to bring together my thoughts into something more coherent than a blog post. You can read the entire American Historian piece, but …

Another Trump-Jackson Comparison

I’ve written about the Trump-Jackson comparison several times (here, here, and here), so when I was asked to contribute a …

Jacksonian America: 2016 in Review

WordPress isn’t generating year-in-review reports this year, so I’m putting together my own. Total blog views: 55,459 Most active month …

2d. Edition of Historical Dictionary of Jacksonian Era & Manifest Destiny Now Available

Yesterday, I received my personal copies of the 2d. edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest …