A leading Jackson historian on Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy

Daniel Feller is a historian who is the editor and director of the Andrew Jackson Papers at the University of Tennessee. In this 2018 videos, he looks at Andrew Jackson's Indian removal project.

He does a good job of defining what I've called the "Tragedy/Happy Ending problem" in looking at the history of European settler colonialism and its gruesome consequences for the native populations. Each country in North, South, and Central America has its own particular histories. But settler colonialism was the model that the colonial powers and their later successor states was how that entire area became what it is today.

Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears: Setting the Record Straight Readex 02/14/2018: