Carrollton (Miss.) Whig Creed, December 6, 1845 (Library of Congress)
August 29, 2022
We’re excited to welcome back Nicholas Breslin as our editorial assistant for the 2022–23 academic year!
June 11, 2022
Today our editor, Michael Cohen, joined four other documentary editors at the American Political History Conference for a roundtable on “Editing Documents in US Political History.” We’ll post the video soon.
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 22, 2022
Today Michael Cohen, our editor, spoke about Taylor and Fillmore in the Annual Presidential Lecture at Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Institute for Citizenship Studies. You can watch the video here.
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 The guide features four previously unpublished Fillmore letters, introductions, and discussion and writing questions.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
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
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
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December 6, 2019
December 2, 2019
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