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The Journal of the Early Republic and its digital platform, the Panorama. In addition to Bluesky, anyone can interact with us on Facebook and Twitter! www.thepanorama.shear.org

Visual page for the "Syllabi Builder List: Two" suggesting works by Molly Nebiolo, Gray, Head, Hale Pulsipher. At bottom is a link to the SHEAR Civics Exchange and a QR code to the JER Socials Linktree. Links to all articles as threads.
Visual image tile for JER Compano pieces, explains what they are as a header "Enjoy short free companion pieces to JER articles - Available on The Panorama" "The Misleading Historical Claims of Coverture" by Laura F. Edwards explores the gap between legal theory and the everyday realities of property ownership to reconsider coverture’s true reach - speaking to the diverse ways women retained control through legal mechanisms. QR code bottom right for the JERPano's socials link-tree. Bottom center The Panorama logo. Bottom left a background-less JER cover image of the liberty tree with people underneath.
"From State in the Union to Domestic Dependent Nation: Lenape Futures from 1778 Onward" by David B.H. Lehman considers how the history of the Lenape (Delaware) nation is Important to larger reflections on American history and implications at the semiquincentennial. QR code to all social media sites at bottom left.
Register for the Free Public JER Session #5 from 9 to 10:45am on Saturday July 18th. Link in post. Image of SHEAR eagle and Panorama Icons on right.
Jason Herberts piece describes the power of the acclaimed Moments That Made Us exhibition, showing how multiple perspectives on pivotal moments can reshape public engagement with America's 250th. Images pop along bottom of page with "The Panorama" banner of Serra statue from (1912) "Francisco Palou's Life and apostolic labors of the Venerable Father Junípero Serra, founder of the Franciscan missions of California" (Internet Archive) and "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (MET).
Tile for the Early Republic Tracker changes stating "References to slavery have been removed from exhibits at Independence Hall and the Second Bank of the United States, including language about enslaved people and Thomas Jefferson’s connection to slavery" and listing a James Madison Quote from 1791, "Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
"Spain and the American Revolution in the West" by Frances Kolb Turnbell, explores Spains crucial military, diplomatic and logistical support especially in the Mississippi valley and Gulf Coast. Often overlooked but essential contributions to an American Victory in the Revoltuionary war. Footer: Read expansive views from the journal of the early republic on The Panorama
Poster image of the article title and summary of it "Writing for a dissertation? Read: 'How to Write a Dissertation Chapter'" by Ann Daly, who "offers practical advice on how to draft a dissertation chapter"
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Shear Civics Exchange Annoucement Language - Same as Post, but with James Madison quote added on public opinion copied from the Shear CE site.
The Panorama's syllabi Builder Reading List 1 - links to each threaded below
Demystifying the doctorate. List of four things the Forum series does - Create advice, post essays by advanced graduate students and other early career scholars, address rules and paths and offer a thoughtful space for sharing and learning.
In the last couple of months, we’ve published some great new pieces on [thepanorama.shear.org]The Panorama. Check out all the excellent companion pieces accompanying articles from the Winter edition of the JER, including: · “Diamonds in the Archival Rough,” in which Michael Woods describes how a fortuitous archival discovery influenced his recent JER article. · "To Be Counted Is to Be Considered" by Meagan Wierda illustrates the importance of accurate census data to the long history Black activism in the United States. · “Microhistory in Community” by Melanie Rush makes a case for collaboration on primary source analysis. · “Equity on the Rocks: Using the Past to Stir Up New Possibilities,” in which Mackenzie Tor discusses the importance of municipal provisioning laws—a topic with salience not only to her JER article, but to contemporary questions of equity as well.
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The JER is pleased to welcome Lindsay Schakenbach Regele as co-editor. Schakenbach Regele is Professor of History at Miami University, where she also directs the History combined BA/MA program. Her scholarship examines the confluence of economic interests, diplomacy, domestic politics, and military power in the early republic. She is the author of Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). Her article, ”’Confidence’: Private Correspondence in Daniel Parkers War Department, 1811-1846," appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic. In addition to her work with the JER, she has published widely in venues including the Journal of Southern History, Business History Review, Technology & Culture, and Studies in American Political Development, and currently serves as co–book reviews editor for the journal alongside Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan. Lindsay - “I feel incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to serve as co-editor of the Journal with Mark Boonshoft, whose skills and generosity as a scholar I have long admired. It is daunting to be following in the footsteps of such great editors and role models—Johann Neem, Ron Johnson, Andy Shankman, David Waldstreicher, Cathy Kelly, and other members of the masthead. JER scholarship has been instrumental to my development as a historian as I first encountered my PhD adviser—Seth Rockman—in an article he wrote for the JER in the early 2000s! I will be forever grateful for Cathy Kelly’s guidance bringing my article into publishable shape when she served as editor. I hope to serve that role for the Journal’s authors, while encouraging emerging scholars to submit their work to the JER. Mark and I intend to continue the academic rigor and spirit of comradery established by our predecessors.”
The Journal of the Early Republic (JER) seeks applicants for a three-year term co-editing its book reviews section alongside the current co-editor. Appointment will be effective July 2026 at the end of the 2026 SHEAR Annual Meeting. Editors of Reviews manage the solicitation, review, and acceptance process for book reviews and longer review essays published by the JER. Duties include identifying appropriate titles for review and corresponding with presses to ensure that JER receives review copies; identifying potential reviewers and assigning books to scholars with particular expertise in the subject matter; sending books to reviewers and following up with them until submission; providing editing for style and form for submitted reviews; and collaborating with the Managing Editor to allot received reviews to particular issues. In its book reviews, the JER is committed to representing the entire field and to encouraging the field’s diversity. This position is uncompensated, but book reviews editors receive up to $1000 to support attendance at the Annual Meeting of SHEAR. Attending the Annual Meeting and the yearly Editorial Board Meeting held during the Annual Meeting is a requirement for the position. Please submit letter of application and c.v. to journaloftheearlyrepublic@wwu.edu. The letter of application should explain the applicant’s interest in the position, relevant skills and experience, vision for the position, and any institutional support for the position. Questions may be addressed to the Editors at the above email address. Review of applications will begin March 10, 2026.
The JER is pleased to welcome Mark Boonshoft as co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. Mark is Associate Professor and Conrad M. Hall ’65 Chair in American Constitutional History at Virginia Military Institute, where his research and teaching focus on constitutional development, political culture, and the institutions that shaped the early American republic. He is the author of Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and is currently completing a new book project on violence and constitution making in revolutionary America. A longstanding contributor to the Journal of the Early Republic, he has published two articles in the JER, one of which received the biennial History of Education Society Prize. Mark writes, “I couldn’t be more honored and excited to serve as co-editor of the JER, which has been such an important part of my professional life, at least since I was a graduate student anxiously navigating the peer-review process as a prospective author. The anonymous reviewers and the editors (Jon Wells and David Waldstreicher) with whom I worked on my submissions taught me much about how to critically but supportively nurture work into publishable form. (I needed all the help I could get!) I took away from those experiences an appreciation for the massive amounts of only somewhat visible work that makes the field go around. Since then, I’ve been lucky to work with the Journal in various capacities and learn how to be a good citizen of the profession from Cathy Kelley, Johann Neem, Ron Johnson, Andy Shankman, and so many others on the board and masthead teams. I’m grateful to be working with Lindsay, someone who I could not admire more, to continue the existing work of navigating the Journal through a changing (and catastrophically challenging) historical profession and public history landscape.”
JER Announcement. The Journal of the Early Republic welcomes our new Co-Editors Mark Boonshoft of the Virginia Military Institute and Lindsay Schakenbach Regele of Miami University of Ohio. Mark and Lindsay will be taking over for our current editors, Johann Neem and Ronald Angelo Johnson, in July. Please join us in offering a warm welcome, and congratulations to our newest co-editors for the #JERPano.
Shira Lurie (she/her) is an Associate Professor of United States History at Saint Mary’s University and the Special Series Editor for the “Road to 250” series for Made by History at TIME Magazine. Lurie’s research focuses on popular politics, protest, the meaning of democracy. Her book, The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic (UVA Press, 2023), explores how Americans used protest symbols and grassroots organization to contest the limits of political legitimacy in the new nation. In her Fall ‘25 JER article, “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Lurie examines how neighbors in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, clashed over what political participation should look like under a republican government, and whether the methods of revolutionary-era dissent still had a place.
Meet the Author tile for Jacqueline Beatty - "Jacqueline Beatty teaches early American, women’s and gender, and public history at York College of Pennsylvania. She also consults with public history organizations like Revolutionary Spaces and the York History Center. Her first book, In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (NYU Press, 2023), shows how women in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston used their legal and social dependency to negotiate power and challenge patriarchal systems. Beatty is currently working on two new projects: Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the American Revolution (Routledge) and Engendering Orientalism in the Empire of Liberty. In her Fall ‘25 JER article, “Rethinking the Gender of Politics,” Beatty urges a recentering of women’s activism in the Early Republic, challenging the idea that politics was inherently masculine and calling for a more inclusive framework for political history.
Manisha Sinha delivering the 2025 Presidents Plenary comments.
"Teaching the EAR: Call for Submissions With the academic year at a close, this is a good time to reflect on pedagogy, lesson plans, and student engagement. What has worked well in your classroom in the last year (or what could have gone better)? We welcome submissions that reflect on any element of your classroom experience teaching the history of the United States from the Revolution through the Civil War. Contributions could include reviews of texts and sources; example lesson plans or discussion questions derived from a specific source; discussion of student reception; ruminations on how resources impact your pedagogy; or much-needed advice on how to handle the challenges of Al. Posts should range from 500-1000 words, and adhere to the guidelines for Pano posts. If interested, please submit to Emily Arendt at Emily.Arendt@msubillings.edu by June 30, 2025. Feel free to reach out to her with any questions or to discuss further. [The Panorama Logo]"
Getting the Most out of Conferences Workshop Flier with QR code. Takes place Wednesday 28th May 2025 4pm.
Text tile image "JER: Conference Paper to Article Workshop" A reminder to submit. The Journal of The Early Republic will be hosting a workshop from 9-2 on Wednesday August 20th. Authors will receive feedback on how to convert a conference paper into an article. Submit a CV and Title by June 30th to the link in the post.
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"Visit the Early Republic Tracker" "Keep History Accessible!" The Early Republic Tracker is now live! The #JERPano is launching a public initiative to document efforts to erase or distort historical interpretation at national sites, museums, websites, and other public venues. We invite academic historians, public historians, federal workers, teachers, and concerned citizens to submit evidence of changes to the Early American historical record on the Panorama. The Tracker serves as a record and tool for historical accountability. We will respect requests for anonymity. Please help us ensure these changes do not disappear down the memory hole by visiting and contributing to the site
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a grey flyer with a purple border, with a head shot of a woman with curly red hair and two archival sources. Source one: Fugitive ad placed in the Daily National Intelligencer on February 1, 1814 for Isaac who escaped from Georgetown. The ad was placed by John McElroy, a Jesuit priest and Clerk of the college. Source two: Marriage record of Charles Taylor, enslaved at Georgetown College, to Mary Ann Boarman, a free woman of color. The marriage took place on September 22, 1836 at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown.
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