Dr. Aaron S. Crawford, Associate Editor of the Martin Van Buren Papers, received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Tennessee. He was previously an Assistant Editor focusing on the Correspondence of James K. Polk, and Assistant Editor on the Paper at the Papers of Andrew Jackson, and an Associate Editor at the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. Dr. Crawford was also a Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, where he co-conducted oral history interviews for The Last Card in the Deck, a project about the 2006 decision to surge troops in Iraq. He came to Cumberland University in January of 2023.