Antebellum U.S.

Dear Fellow Early Americanists,

The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore just published a new blog entry. This one discusses "Millard Fillmore and the Policing of Black America." We hope that you, or your students, find it worth your time.

https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/millard-fillmore-and-the-policing-of-black-...

Hi, 

We're two PhD candidates (reading History and Literature respectively) looking to put together a panel on the fragmentation of white identity and power, preferably in the antebellum period. We're looking for papers that challenge conceptions of a universal "white" identity and power,  including but not limited to race and gender politics. If you're interested in participating in this panel, please email charlotte.hand@sjc.ox.ac.uk

Hi Fellow Early Americanists,

We at the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore just published another blog entry. This one, "Election Time," discusses (as you might guess) what Taylor, Fillmore, and their correspondents wrote about office-seeking and the electoral process. We hope you enjoy it.

https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/election-time/

Best wishes,
Michael Cohen (Editor)
American University

Dear Fellow Historians,

We've just published the latest entry in the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore's blog. This one, on "Taylor, Fillmore, and the Constitution," comes just in time for Constitution Day. I hope you enjoy reading what these future presidents wrote (or didn't write) about the founding document.

https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/taylor-fillmore-and-the-constitution/

With best wishes to all,
Michael Cohen

Fellow historians, the newest blog entry for the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore is up: "Independence Day and Summer Travel." This one gets into both how Fillmore spent the holiday and recent conference conversations among documentary editors.

https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/independence-day-and-summer-travel/

Have a lovely holiday weekend!

Best wishes,
Michael Cohen

A talk given at the Library of Congress by historian C. Patrick Burrowes, February 09, 2022

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10210/

Hello H-CivWar Readers:
 
Today we continue our conversation with Luke Ritter to talk about his new book Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum West, published by Fordham University Press in December 2020.

Part 1

The system messed up on the link. Here is a link to the book page at Fordham UP:
https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823289851/inventing-americas-first-immi...