This talk will feature highlights from the recently published 1834 volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson.  The centerpiece of the year was the official censure of President Jackson by the United States Senate, the only time that has ever happened.  Other exciting events included Jackson’s campaign to destroy the federally chartered Bank of the United States, a looming confrontation with the Cherokee Indians, lurid scandals in the Post Office Department, assassination threats against the president, a bungled effort to buy Texas from Mexico, and the burning of Jackson’s Hermitage home.

About the speaker

Daniel Feller is an American historian with a research specialty in the antebellum, Jacksonian, and Civil War eras.  He earned his PhD at Wisconsin and taught at Northland College and University of New Mexico before coming to UT in 2003.  Since then, he and his team have produced six volumes of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, covering the presidential years from 1829 through 1834.