at Cumberland Univ.’s Alumni Hall on Tues., Oct. 28, at 7:00P. PMVB is making approximately 15,000 Van Buren documents freely accessible to the public. Cumberland University, the NHPRC, and the NEH sponsor PMVB, produced in partnership with the Center for Digital Editing at the Univ. of Virginia.

Let us be clear: we will not be bullied by log cabin and hard cider humbuggery. Not now. Not ever.

To our loyal users: With your faith in us and with your steadfast support, we will be OK.

2. Some critics (many of them funded by Whig PACs, to be clear) have demanded that our project be renamed the Papers of Martin Van Ruin and that our logo incorporate a gold spoon. We categorically reject that demand.

1. Despite public outcry, we are going to continue to transcribe Van Buren's handwriting into text that can be easily read. Some members of the public have called for us to only publish documents in his original cursive, but we are standing firm on our commitment to accessibility. vanburenpapers.org

For that reason, we have made two decisions that reaffirm our commitment to our core principles:

Let us be clear: we will not be bullied by log cabin and hard cider humbuggery. Not now. Not ever.

To our loyal users: With your faith in us and with your steadfast support, we will be OK.

2. Some critics (many of them funded by Whig PACs, to be clear) have demanded that our project be renamed the Papers of Martin Van Ruin and that our logo incorporate a gold spoon. We categorically reject that demand.

1. Despite public outcry, we are going to continue to transcribe Van Buren's handwriting into text that can be easily read. Some members of the public have called for us to only publish documents in his original cursive, but we are standing firm on our commitment to accessibility. vanburenpapers.org

For that reason, we have made two decisions that reaffirm our commitment to our core principles:

You can read more about Van Buren's purported last words here: vanburenpapers.org/content/mvb-...

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