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New year, new scholarship! Start the year off right by reading the Winter issue of the Journal of the Early Republic - available on project Muse:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56038
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Project MUSE - Journal of the Early Republic-Volume 45, Number 4, Winter 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56038
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The
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is pleased to announce our newest team of Co-editors to begin this July. Please join us in congratulating Lindsay Schakenbach Regele and Mark Boonschoft in their new roles!
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In centering Sally Hemings and reflecting on the intellectual and emotional experience of visiting Monticello, Gaila Sims articulates the need for public history to confront silence and power in "Desperately Seeking Sally!" Available on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/12/11/d...
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Desperately Seeking Sally
Gaila Sims reflects on the intellectual and emotional experience of visiting Monticello.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/12/11/desperately-seeking-sally/
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As fall comes to a close, the
#JERPano
would like to introduce another one of our authors—Daniel Carpenter. Read Carpenter’s Fall 2025 piece, “Petitioning as Governance: The Scattered and Multinational World of the Early United States” at:
muse.jhu.edu/article/969333
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Project MUSE - Petitioning as Governance: The Scattered and Multinational World of the Early United States
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969333
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We love seeing so many of our authors on this list! What
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piece is on your 2026 bingo card?
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Educators - are you building next year's lesson plans? Discover The Panorama's list of short readings (under 1,000 words) from more than 250 authors! Our insightful and classroom ready features are perfect for sparking discussion and enriching your syllabus.
thepanorama.shear.org/contributors/
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Contributors
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https://thepanorama.shear.org/contributors/
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Meet
@shiralurie.bsky.social
, one of our
#JERFall2025
authors! In her article “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Lurie considers whether revolutionary tactics still had a place in the emergent Republic. Learn more at:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
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Well beyond the battlefield—firearms were instruments of authority in early America. Explore a new lesson in the
#JERPano
Teaching the Early Republic series that opens opportunities for students to think about the materiality and symbolism of power and control:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/11/06/f...
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Lesson Plan: The Architecture of Firearms and Power in Early America
Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval’s recent article from The Pano.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/11/06/firearms_lesson/
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Ronald Angelo Johnson
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Fellow
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historian
@jmbeatty.bsky.social
’s article “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” is out in the latest issue of
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Meet another one of our
#JERFall2025
authors — Jacqueline Beatty, whose “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” challenges us to reconsider how we define political power in the early republic. Read on Project Muse:
muse.jhu.edu/article/9693...
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Feeling the midsemester slump? You’re not alone. The Panorama's series -Teaching the Early American Republic contains ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, fresh ideas, and reflections to reinvigorate your classroom. Visit the
#JERPano
at:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/t...
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Teaching the Early American Republic
Check out recent Pano pieces on teaching to find inspiration for your classroom.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/teaching/
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Read our latest
#JERPano
piece “How I Discovered That Politics is a Plural Noun.” Reeve Huston considers the ways political practices in our lives and times reflect a kind of "political promiscuity" that has long been part of the American tradition.
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/27/p...
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How I Discovered that Politics is a Plural Noun
Reeve Huston considers the ways that political practices in our own lives and times reflect a kind of “political promiscuity” that has long been part of the American tradition.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/27/politics-plural-noun/
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Have you checked out the
#JERFall2025
issue? Meet Angela Murphy, whose “Politicizing the Home: The Loguen Family’s Underground Railroad,” explores how domestic space became a powerful site of antislavery resistance in upstate New York! Read at:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55590
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Read Angela Murphy's
#ComPano
piece to the Fall 2025 issue of the
#JERPano
, "‘Homeplace,’ the Underground Railroad, and the Politics of Everyday Care” on The Panorama! Murphy reflects on how bell hooks' work resonated with her research on Jermain Wesley Loguen.
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“Homeplace,” the Underground Railroad, and the Politics of Everyday Care
Angela Murphy reflects on how bell hooks’s work resonated with her research on Jermain Wesley Loguen.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/02/homeplace/__;!!DZ3fjg!89AiO0zk0JYHdhd_RgUDVJSCfxyBAmSBxdTcR7-iFw0g99akgPCyuTlwzSSCnbgHasguDe5-Xvu7_Z9SkfShwfDK6gApK64$
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@JERPano invites public submissions to document the rewriting or removal of historical interpretation at federal sites, museums, and government platforms. Preserve the record by submitting or view previous changes on The Panorama's Early Republic Tracker!
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
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The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/the-early-republic-tracker/
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“The Long Struggle for Equality in the American South,” the first fall
#ComPano
for
#JERPano
, is live. Lacy K. Ford shows how Louisiana’s 1845 & 1852 constitutional conventions set the stage for a century of political and social tension.
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The Long Struggle for Equality in the American South: Louisiana as a Test Case
Building from his recent JER article, Lacy K. Ford explores how Louisiana’s 1845 and 1852 constitutional conventions set the stage for social and political tensions that would shape the state…
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/louisiana/
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@JERPano invites public submissions to document the rewriting or removal of historical interpretation at federal sites, museums, and government platforms. Preserve the record by submitting or view previous changes on The Panorama's Early Republic Tracker!
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
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The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/the-early-republic-tracker/
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How did antebellum constitutional politics in Louisiana shape a century of racial inequality? @JERPano’s latest by Lacy K. Ford traces the long arc of Black struggle from slavery to civil rights through Louisiana’s 1845 & 1852 conventions. Read The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/l...
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The Long Struggle for Equality in the American South: Louisiana as a Test Case
Building from his recent JER article, Lacy K. Ford explores how Louisiana’s 1845 and 1852 constitutional conventions set the stage for social and political tensions that would shape the state…
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/louisiana/
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Department of Interior orders NPS to remove slavery-related information across multiple sites. Items flagged for removal include the famous 1863 "Scourged Back" photograph and over 30 signs at Harpers Ferry. View this and other changes on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/17/o...
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Washington Post Reports Ordered Removal of “The Scourged Back” at NPS Site
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https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/17/ordered-removal/
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Read the last "Teaching the Early Republic"
#JERPano
post! Molly Nebiolo explains how student mapping projects boost classroom engagement in "Connecting Across Time and Space: Using Maps and Memory to Teach the Eighteenth Century." Available on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/u...
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Connecting Across Time and Space: Using Maps and Memory to Teach the Eighteenth Century
Student mapping projects become an opportunity for better student engagement in Molly Nebiolo’s courses.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/using-maps-and-memory/
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Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test
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I was impressed with this approach to the survey, which uses Yawp. From
@thejerpano.bsky.social
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/c...
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Crafting an Open-Access Syllabus for the U.S. History Survey
Jennifer Black shares a roadmap and useful resources for departments seeking to adopt a common OER text in US history surveys.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/crafting-an-open-access-syllabus-for-the-u-s-history-survey/
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Who gets to be called a revolutionary? This
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lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era. Explore it on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/l...
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Lesson Plan: Women’s Varied Experiences in Revolutionary America
Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval’s recent article from The Pano.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/lesson-plan-women-rev/
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The cause and significance of the pending closure of the Iowa State Historical Society is examined in the latest "Early Republic Tracker" post for The Panorama. View this and other changes to the historical landscape and infrastructure on the
#JERPano
:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/i...
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Planned Closure of Iowa Historical Society
The latest “Early Republic Tracker” post examines the pending closure of the Iowa State Historical Society.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/iowa-historical-society/
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The
#JERPano
is spotlighting our "Teaching the Early Republic" series! Check out (or submit your own) reflections, ruminations and creative solutions to teaching some of the most complex issues in American history today on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/t...
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Teaching the Early American Republic
Check out recent Pano pieces on teaching to find inspiration for your classroom.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/teaching/
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This
#LaborDay
, explore how even after emancipation "free" labor wasn’t truly free in the
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Summer '25 issue, the "Free State and Slavery," which explores how Northern states used law & policy to control Black labor. Login and download at:
muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
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Project MUSE - Preface: Special Issue on Free-State Slavery
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
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Help document changes to American history in public spaces & gov sites with the
#JERPano
! The Early Republic Tracker is tracing these alterations - from NPS reviews and funding cuts to library updates. Submit or view on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
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The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/the-early-republic-tracker/
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Teaching the EAR - “How to Use SNL’s “Washington’s Dream” (2023) Skit in the Early American History Survey” Aleandra Garret's offers tips for bringing a dose of pop culture into the classroom by using the SNL skit, "Washington's Dream." Read at the
#JERPano
:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/22/h...
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How to Use SNL’s “Washington’s Dream” (2023) Skit in the Early American History Survey
Alexandra Garrett offers tips for bringing an appropriate dose of pop culture into the classroom by using the extraordinarily funny SNL skit, “Washington’s Dream.”
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/22/how-to-use-snls-washingtons-dream-2023-skit-in-the-early-american-history-survey/
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Teaching the EAR, “A Dramatis Personae for the American Revolution” Our Authors explain how a cast of characters becomes an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution. Read
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at:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/d...
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A Dramatis Personae for the American Revolution
Our authors explain how a cast of characters can become an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/dramatis-personae/
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"The Original Gerrymanders" is live on the
#JerPano
! Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans. Read this and other reflections on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...
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The Original Gerrymanders
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about Texas Republicans recent redistricting plans.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/gerrymanders/
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"Discussing Slavery and Freedom in the U.S. I Survey" Read the latest contribution to the
#JERPano
"Teaching the Early Republic" series, in which Steven Peach discusses the ways primary source analysis boosts engagement in the history survey course. Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/s...
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Discussing Slavery and Freedom in the U.S. I Survey
In this contribution to our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Steven Peach discusses the ways that primary source analysis boosts engagement in his survey-level history courses.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/slavery-and-freedom/
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Over a dozen slavery-related displays at Independence National Park including the President's House, Benjamin Franklin Museum and Independence Hall face federal content review. View this and other changes on the
#JerPano
Early Republic Tracker:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/c...
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Independence National Historical Park Flagged for Content Review
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https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/content-review/
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Happening now! The
#SHEAR2025
President's Plenary! Come join us in Brown University's Solomon Center. Followed by a reception at 6:30 in the John Hayes Library on campus.
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“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar” In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the
#JERPano
, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom. Read on The Panorama
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/a...
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Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar
In the latest installment of our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/arts-and-crafts-day-in-the-research-seminar/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLji3BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn5MSeguJMs2aKfIPg6cY0Mjwt33acdTvTRY8FYjGkO9BEMqTV8HLkQerx2C_aem_igv3QIU4l-OYnXirI90d2g
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The latest
#ComPano
piece to the
#JERPano
is live! Richard Newman’s “No Place of Grace” reflects on how the power of place can be harnessed to tell the story of free-state slavery at historical sites outside the South. Read on The Panorama at:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/07/n...
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No Place of Grace: Coming to Terms with Free State Slavery Through Historic Buildings and Public History
Richard Newman reflects on how the power of place can be harnessed to tell the story of free-state slavery at historical sites outside the South.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/07/no-place-of-grace-coming-to-terms-with-free-state-slavery-through-historic-buildings-and-public-history/
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Still need to register for
#SHEAR2025
? You're in luck! Online registration has been extended until midnight tonight - July 6th, 2025. To register and view all the great events the
#JERPano
is sponsoring, visit:
shear.org/annual-meeti...
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Annual Meeting – SHEAR
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/
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Cory James Young, in a
#Compano
piece to his
#JERPano
article on hereditary term slavery in Pennsylvania, considers the significance of some silences in slavery's archive. Read the companion piece on The Panorama:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/30/a...
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Active Silence, Archival Presence, and an Enslaved Mother’s Legal Knowledge
Cory James Young, in a companion piece to his JER article on hereditary term slavery in Pennsylvania, considers the significance of some silences in slavery’s archive.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/30/active-silence-archival-presence-and-an-enslaved-mothers-legal-knowledge/
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What does it mean to teach Lincoln in an era of division and doubt? Writing for the
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Teaching The Early Republic Series, David N. Gellman explores how historical education prompts deeper civic reflection and honest engagement with the past. Read at:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/25/l...
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Lincoln Lessons: Teaching Abe in Troubled Times
In the first installment of our new “Teaching the Early American Republic” series, David Gellman explores the challenges of teaching Abraham Lincoln in 2025.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/25/lincoln-lessons-teaching-abe-in-troubled-times/
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Your friendly JER reminder: There’s still time to register for the 46th Annual
#SHEAR2025
Meeting, taking place in Providence, July 17–20, 2025:
shear.org/annual-meeti..
. Submissions also remain open for
#JERPano
“Teaching the Early American Republic” series:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/04/c..
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Annual Meeting – SHEAR
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#SHEAR2025
is coming! Be sure to join the
#JERPano
this July in Providence, RI. It’s a chance to catch new early American scholarship, network, and get a sense of where the field is headed. To view this year's program and register, visit:
shear.org/annual-meeti...
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Annual Meeting – SHEAR
https://shear.org/annual-meeting/
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The Summer 2025
#JERPano
special issue, “Free State and Slavery,” is now out! This issue challenges a clear free/slave state divide prior to the Civil War. Exploring how “free” states used law and policy to coerce and enslave Black people after emancipation. Read:
muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
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Project MUSE - Preface: Special Issue on Free-State Slavery
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
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1) Most recent update on
@thejerpano.bsky.social
history tracker: NPS is asked to post signs allowing people to submit feedback on any interpretations that portray US history/landscapes negatively-- the goal is to erase honest histories from our public spaces...
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NPS Asks Public to Help Erase “Negative” History
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https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/11/nps-asks-public-to-help-erase-negative-history/
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The
#JERPano
invites contributions to our new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic!" We welcome thoughtful reflections on pedagogy, innovative lesson plans, source reviews, or the challenges faced in the classroom by June 30th. For guidelines, visit:
thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/
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Help the
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document critical threats to public history. Like the withdrawal of a $460,000 federal grant to conserve more than 3,000 African-American-made quilts (c1860s), which, without preservation, now risk irreversible decay. View this change at:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/10/p...
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Pulled Funds Threaten Historic Quilts
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https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/10/pulled-funds-threaten-historic-quilts/
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The
#JERPano
seeks contributors for a new series, "Teaching the Early American Republic." We invite reflections on classroom experiences, lesson plans, source reviews, or challenges in 500 to 1000 words by June 30th. For posting guidelines, visit us at:
thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/
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Read “Digitization of Sources and the American Revolution” by Miriam Liebman! As the semiquincentennial approaches, Liebman comments on historiographical shifts relating to women's and diplomatic history in the era of the Revolution. Explore at the
#JERPano
:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/02/d...
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Digitization of Sources and the American Revolution
As the semiquincentennial approaches, Miriam Liebman comments on historiographical shifts relating to women’s and diplomatic history in the era of the Revolution.
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/02/digitization-of-sources-and-the-american-revolution/
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Join the "Getting the Most out of Conferences" Workshop which aims to discuss key issues around attending conferences! Taking Place Today 4pm EST / 1pm PST To register go to:
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"What's past is prologue" - The Tempest, Act II Scene I The Panorama invites historians of early America to contribute essays that bring depth to our understanding of the present. Learn more about writing for the
#JERPano
or submit a proposal and CV:
thepanorama.shear.org/write-for-us/
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Register for the
#JERPano
Conference Paper to Article Workshop at
#SHEAR2025
. Submit at:
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/28/j..
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Historians at Brown University and Tribal members from across New England are launching a project they hope will bring awareness to the historic enslavement of Indigenous people in North America.
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A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England
Historians at Brown University and Tribal members from across New England are launching a project they hope will bring awareness to the historic enslavement of Indigenous people in North America.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/13/stolen-relations-indigenous-slavery-database-new-england-boston
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Beginning our
#JERSpring2025
"Meet the Author" series is John K. Bardes! Learn more about John's article, "“A New Way of Smuggling Free Negroes”: Black Unauthorized Workers and the Police Power in Antebellum New Orleans" and check it out through
@projectmuse.bsky.social
and
@uncpress.bsky.social
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