The University of Tennessee Press has published the fourteenth and final volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk. Covering April 1848 to June 1849, it features letters from the last months of his presidency and of his life. It culminates over six decades of work by forty-three faculty, staff, and student editors at Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee. The 376 letters (and summaries of 1,414 more) cover the California gold rush, the debate over slavery in western territories, the forcible removal of Natives from the east, the global cholera pandemic that killed Polk, and numerous other topics in antebellum politics, diplomacy, culture, and science. Read more about the contents at https://history.utk.edu/uts-final-volume-of-polk-letters-covers-race-disunion-and-pandemic-in-1840s/.

As always, the volume features full annotation identifying all people, events, and topics in the letters. This one also includes a supplementary calendar listing more than four thousand letters that we located too late to include in their chronologically appropriate volumes. Volume 14 was edited by Michael David Cohen.

The Polk Project received generous support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Tennessee Historical Commission. All earlier volumes of the Correspondence are available online from Newfound Press, for free, at https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_polk/.