I am under contract to write two new books: a volume that centers on the 1840 presidential election and a study of the origins of the Jacksonian Democrats. I am also editing a second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny.
My next major research project will examine the development of the Jackson-Donelson family following Andrew Jackson’s death in 1845.
Outside of the Jacksonian period, I have conducted research on the life of Confederate general George Washington Gordon, who was one of the earliest members of the Ku Klux Klan.
