From The Historian’s Corner: The Pollock Lineage of Alexander Hamilton The recent bestseller about Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow is a lively account of a fascinating man who made profound contributions to our Republic in its formative years. The achievements of Hamilton are particularly remarkable in that he rose from almost total obscurity and penury to the heights of prominence by […]

From The Historian’s Corner: A Tale of Two Polks – Civil War and Aftermath Our guest author, James Polk Farber, describes his family around the time of the U.S. Civil War. This monograph details the background and very differing histories, during and after the Civil War, of two of my kinsmen from the line of

Clan Pollock Historian’s Corner For a number of years The Pollag, the Clan newsletter, has been blessed with the writings of John F. Polk, Ph.D., our Clan Historian. John loves his family, his clan, and Clan Pollock and we are all the better off for it. We have collected a number of the articles Dr. Polk