Correspondence of James K. Polk, Volume 2 de James K. Polk

Correspondence of James K. Polk, Volume 2: 1833-1834: Utp Correspondence James Polk, cartea 2

James K. Polk

Based in the History Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the James K. Polk Project sought to locate all extant letters by or to the United States’s eleventh president (1845–49) and to publish an annotated edition of selected letters in print and online. Students, scholars, and anyone interested in U.S. history can use these resources to learn about one of the most consequential presidents and about a key period in the country’s development. Since beginning its work in 1958, the Polk project has published fourteen volumes of the Correspondence of James K. Polk. All are held by numerous libraries and hardcover editions are available for purchase through the University of Tennessee Press. They also are available online as open access titles. In 2019 the project completed work on the fourteenth and final volume, which covers the last year of Polk’s presidency and his brief retirement. The Polk Project is sponsored by the University of Tennessee and assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Nations Endowment for the Humanities, and the Tennessee Historical Commission.

The Authors: Wayne Cutler is research professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He earned his bachelor's degree at Lamar University and his master's and doctor's degrees and University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cutler became director of the Polk Project in 1975, served as associate editor in the fourth volume of the correspondence, and headed the editorial team in the preparation of the series' fifth and subsequent volumes. He began his professional career in 1966 as an editorial associate of the Southwestern Historic Quarterly and moved to the assistant editorship of the Henry Clay Project in 1970. James L. Rogers II, the Project's associate editor from 1995 until 2002, received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and his doctor's degree from the University of Tennessee. He joined the Polk staff in 1991 as graduate research assistant and became associate editor following completion of the series' ninth volume.

The Correspondence of James K. Polk, 1833-1834

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