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Daniel Feller

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Field Specialties

Jacksonian, Antebellum, and Civil War America

Professor Feller joined the History Department in August 2003 from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he had been since 1986. Previous to that he taught at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, and served on the staff of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, a UT project which he now directs. For more information on the project, visit thepapersofandrewjackson.com.

Professor Feller's scholarly interests encompass mid-nineteenth-century America as a whole, with special attention to Jacksonian politics and the coming of the Civil War. He has contributed to numerous historical reference works, including the Oxford Companion to United States History, the Reader's Guide to American History, the Dictionary of American History, and American National Biography. His critical essays and review articles have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic, Reviews in American History, and Documentary Editing. Professor Feller has been active in the Association for Documentary Editing, the Southern Historical Association, British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (BrANCH), and especially the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), where he serves as Conference Coordinator for its annual summer meeting. In 2000 he was a Commonwealth Fund Lecturer in American History at University College London. He is currently at work on a biography of Benjamin Tappan, a Jacksonian politician, scientist, social reformer, and freethinker.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1981

Selected Publications

  • "Rediscovering Jacksonian America," in Melvyn Stokes, ed., The State of U.S. History (2002), pp. 69-91.

  • "A Brother in Arms: Benjamin Tappan and the Antislavery Democracy," Journal of American History, vol. 88 (June 2001), pp. 48-74.

  • "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr." in Robert A. Rutland, ed., Clio's Favorites (2000), pp. 156-169.

  • Editor, Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (2000) - a new abridged edition of this classic narrative (originally published in 1838) with editor's introduction, notes and, index.

  • The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995)

  • The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984)
Daniel Feller

Contact Information

Daniel Feller
Professor of History and Editor/Director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-7077
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: dfeller@utk.edu