by Erica Cavanaugh | Sep 21, 2026
The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore is assembling an edition of letters written by or to those men between 1844 and 1853. During that decade, which preceded and included their terms in the White House, the United States expanded its boundaries...
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 28, 2026
On June 27, 1903, the ground-breaking African American writer of fiction, Charles Chesnutt, sent letters to both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Chesnutt had a long-standing friendship with Washington, but he aligned in thought more with Du Bois who...
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 28, 2026
In the wake of white supremacist violence in Clinton, Mississippi, citizens of Vicksburg wrote their governor in September 1875, warning that if protection was not provided to voters, they would be “forced away from the polls and not allowed to vote.” Addressing Gov....
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 21, 2026
The Cherokee dramatist Lynn Riggs, the author of six plays produced on Broadway, was born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in 1899, a decade into the land runs that led to the loss of millions of acres of Indigenous land. Soon after his eighth birthday in...
