Rate My Professor Daniel Feller

Feller authored two influential books: The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) and The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 (Yale University Press, 1995). As editor of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, he oversaw the production of multiple volumes, including Volume IX (1831, 2013), Volume X (1832, 2016), Volume XI (1833, 2021), and Volume XII (1834, 2024), which provide comprehensive documentation of Andrew Jackson's correspondence and have profoundly shaped scholarly interpretations of the Jacksonian era. His editorial work received support from National Endowment for the Humanities grants and earned him recognition, including the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Distinguished Service Award in 2018 and University of Tennessee research excellence honors. Feller has delivered public lectures, appeared on C-SPAN, and contributed expert analysis to media outlets such as CNN and The Conversation, illuminating historical parallels to contemporary events. He held the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professorship in History during his tenure.