UT History Department Documents Key Year in Andrew Jackson’s Presidency
In partnership with UT Press, the UT history department published the 1834 volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson in December 2023. Documenting in rich detail one of the most important years of Jackson’s presidency, the volume covers Jackson’s “war” against the Bank of the United States, as well as his administration’s infamous program to force the removal of Native Americans from their homelands in the Southeast.
In 1834 Jackson continued his longstanding effort to pry the province of Texas loose from Mexico. Other matters engaging Jackson included corruption scandals in the Post Office and at Mississippi land offices, fractious disputes over rank and seniority among Army and Navy officers, and a fire that gutted Jackson’s home in Tennessee, the Hermitage.
These stories and many more are told in The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Volume XII, 1834. Presenting more than 500 original documents—public and private letters, memoranda, and official papers—in full annotated text, the volume is the latest installment in an ongoing series that has been called “the gold standard of historical documentary editing.”
Volume XII is the sixth and last produced under the editorship of Daniel Feller, now a UT Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Associate editors Thomas Coens and Laura-Eve Moss are UT research faculty in history. The index was completed under Michael Woods, Feller’s successor as UT history professor and Jackson editor. Financial support was provided by the UT College of Arts and Sciences, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Tennessee Historical Commission, and the Watson-Brown Foundation.