In this episode, I take a look at John Tyler, the Virginian who served as Harrison’s running mate and vice-president before assuming the presidency, as well as antebellum Virginia leading up to Harrison’s presidency in 1841.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected] or comment below.

Sources used for this episode:

* Braverman, Howard. “The Economic and Political Background of the Conservative Revolt in Virginia.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 60:2 (Apr 1952) pp. 266-287.

* Bush, George W. Decision Points. New York: Crown, 2010.

* Chitwood, Oliver Perry. John Tyler: Champion of the Old South. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2003 [1939].

* Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2010 [1939].

* Cole, Donald B. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

* Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1971.

* Gates, Paul F. The Farmer’s Age: Agriculture, 1815-1860: Volume III, The Economic History of the United States. Armonk, NY & London, England, UK: M E Sharpe Inc, 1989.

* “Genealogy of John Tyler and his Descendants.” Sherwood Forest: Home of President John Tyler. http://www.sherwoodforest.org/Genealogy.html. Last Accessed: 31 July 2016.

* Gunderson, Robert Gray. The Log-Cabin Campaign. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977 [1957].

* Harrison, William Henry. “The Speech of General Harrison delivered at the Old Hamilton Convention Thursday the 1st of October 1840,” Reel 23, Martin Van Buren Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

* Peterson, Norma Lois. The Presidencies of William Henry Harrison & John Tyler. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1989.

For the inaugural episode of my podcast, I explain my intentions with this podcast as well as how it fits into my overall research project before discussing the concept of legacy, what it meant to Gen. Harrison, and how it fit into the context of his time.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected] or comment below.

Sources Used for This Episode:

* Adams, Charles Francis, ed. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary From 1795 to 1848: Vol. VII. Philadelphia: J B Lippincott & Co, 1875.

* Cleaves, Freeman. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time. Newtown, CT: American Political Biography Press, 2010 [1939].

* Cox, Isaac Joslin. “Selections from the Torrence Papers, IV.” Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. 3:3, July-September 1908.

* Harrison, William Henry. Gen. Harrison’s Speech at the Dayton Convention, September 10, 1840. Boston: Whig Republican Association, [1840].

* Harrison, William Henry. “Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1841. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25813 [Last Accessed: 23 Jul 2016]

* Owens, Robert M. Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

* Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

* Seager, Robert II, ed. The Papers of Henry Clay: Volume 9, The Whig Leader, January 1, 1837-December 31, 1843. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

* Short-Harrison-Symmes Families Papers, Box 27, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.