May 12, 2022

 

May 10, 2022

Feedspot has ranked our blog #32 on its new list of the “70 Best American History Blogs and Websites.” We’re honored!

 

April 13, 2022

The new issue of American Magazine, the alumni magazine of American University, features an article about our project’s recent experience helping Jeopardy! with a Fillmore clue!

 

March 14, 2022

Are you a Jeopardy! fan? Today’s episode of the answer-and-question show featured a category titled “A Few Moments with Millard Fillmore.” We helped the writers with one of the clues, and host Ken Jennings gave our project a shout-out! Watch the whole category and test your own knowledge of the thirteenth president:

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 25, 2022

We’re delighted to welcome Nicholas Breslin, of American’s School of Public Affairs, and Ian Iverson, of the University of Virginia, to the project this semester as editorial assistants!

 

January 10, 2022

Today we published our first-ever teaching guide, on the US annexation of Texas. The guide features four previously unpublished Fillmore letters, introductions, and discussion and writing questions. Educators can use it to teach eleventh- or twelfth-grade students in US history to analyze primary sources. Anyone, of course, can now learn from the letters themselves.

 

November 22, 2021

 

November 4, 2021

We are delighted to have been awarded a $10,000 Humanities Grant for 2022–23 by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. This generous award will support our work making primary documents accessible in print and online to students, scholars, and all interested in US history. Thank you!

 

October 18, 2021

 

September 15, 2021

For the first time, we have three new interns this semester! Welcome to Brendan Lawlor, a junior here at American University; Abigail Peterson, a sophomore at St. Olaf College; and Leila Rocha Fisher, a junior at St. Olaf.

 

May 24, 2021

Welcome to Alaysia Bookal, master’s student in American’s School of Public Affairs and School of Education, our editorial assistant this summer!

 

May 3, 2021

Welcome to Amy Larrabee Cotz, our new associate editor! We’re excited to have her join our team after a decade editing the Dolley Madison Digital Edition.

 

February 19, 2021

We’re pleased to welcome Adele Raymer and Grace Tamms, St. Olaf College history majors, as this semester’s interns!

 

February 15, 2021

This Presidents’ Day, editor Michael David Cohen wrote an op-ed for the Baton Rouge Advocate: “Louisiana’s Only President Would Have No Tolerance for Capitol Riots.”

 

December 1, 2020

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has awarded our project a major grant for 2021–22! See the NHPRC’s press release and its announcement with details on that grant and others to projects ensuring preservation of and access to the United States’ documentary record. (The NHPRC also publicized this grant in its December newsletter, as did David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, in his December 10 blog post.)

 

October 30, 2020

Today’s episode of The Legal Edition features an interview with our editor, Michael David Cohen, about race and presidents (including, of course, Taylor and Fillmore) in nineteenth-century America.

 

October 15, 2020

The Summerlee Foundation, as part of its Texas History Program, has awarded a generous grant to the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore for 2021–22. Thank you!

 

October 13, 2020

The Watson-Brown Foundation has awarded the Taylor-Fillmore project a major grant to support our work locating, transcribing, and publishing the two presidents’ letters in 2021–22!

 

October 9, 2020

The latest newsletter of the NHPRC discusses the numerous documentary editions, including ours, of presidents’ and presidential candidates’ papers that the agency has generously funded over the years.

 

August 20, 2020

Welcome to St. Olaf College senior history majors Alex Kiprof and Alyssa Moore, our project interns for the fall semester!

 

July 27, 2020

The summer issue of American Magazine features an article about the Taylor-Fillmore project. We thank them for telling AU alumni and friends about our work.

 

May 26, 2020

We’re excited to welcome Gabriella Siegfried, editorial assistant (and SPA master’s student), and Zoe Golden and Gretchen Ohlmacher, interns (and St. Olaf College undergraduates), to the Taylor-Fillmore project! See our staff page for more about these new members of our team.

 

March 20, 2020

The Taylor-Fillmore project’s Twitter feed, @ZTandMF, and this website, go live!

 

February 17, 2020

American University announces the launch of the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. See this article in the School of Public Affairs’ news on the project’s goals, leadership, and sponsors.

 

January 28, 2020

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in association with the NHPRC, awards a $1 million grant to the University of Virginia Digital Publishing Cooperative. Our project and those at twenty-one other institutions will use this grant to develop a common platform for creating and publishing digital editions of historical documents. See this press release for information on the cooperative and the grant.

 

December 6, 2019

Delaplaine Foundation, Inc., awards our project a Historical Preservation Grant for now through 2020. See the foundation’s website for all the organizations it supports.

 

December 2, 2019

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission awards our project a major grant for 2020–21. See this press release for details on that grant, in the category of Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions, and others awarded following the NHPRC’s meeting in November.

 

July 18, 2019

The William G. Pomeroy Foundation awards our project a Special Interest Grant for 2020. See the foundation’s website for all the organizations receiving its support in the “For History” category.