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Read the #JERPano's latest Fall #ComPano piece by Mitch Brown on The Panorama! 🧵Link to The Pano Below🧵

thepanorama.shear.orgAdams and the Apostate on the Divinity of ChristIn a companion to his recent JER article, Mitch Brown considers a previously underrecognized ancient Greek influence on John Adams’s religious beliefs.

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Read, download, and share the Fall #JERPano Information Wars Forum - Free to access for a limited time! Read Anderson Davis to learn how the Jackson administration used information campaigns to build support for Indian Removal. Link🧵

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Read, download, and share the Fall #JERPano Information Wars Forum - Free - Limited Time! How did revolutionaries ensure citizens knew what their representatives actually said & did? Read Katlyn Marie Carter on struggles over recording legislative debates in the age of revolutions. Link🧵- or QR

Read Carter's "Recording Revolutions" in the Fall 46 issue without a subscription on Project Muse at: muse.jhu.edu/article/1000...

Read, download, and share the Fall #JERPano Information Wars Forum - Free - Limited Time! How did the British govern a vast Great Lakes frontier during the Revolution? Jonathan Quint shares the ways Indigenous nations and networks were indispensable information brokers. Link in 🧵 - or Scan QR

J. Quint, “Anxious to be exactly informed” Information and Empire in the Great Lakes Basin, 1776–1783 - read for a limited time without a login at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

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Thanks @thejerpano.bsky.social for the chance to write about #informationwarfare in the C19. Similarities between tactics in the 1830s and 2020s is pretty incredible. Instead of #AI and #socialmedia its newspapers and voluntary associations, but the deceptions and harms remain pretty consistent.

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Check out this lineup of outstanding forum essays in the #JERPano Fall Vol. 46. Thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social, the entire forum is freely available on Project MUSE for the next four weeks. Download and share with friends, students and colleague! Link in 🧵 below.

Read the Journal of the Early Republic-Volume 46, Number 3, Fall 2026 "Information Wars" forum at muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/issue...

The complete #JERPano Vol. 46 Fall issue is available free on Project MUSE for the next four weeks, courtesy of @uncpress.bsky.social. Every article in this edition is open to read, download, and share with students and colleagues! Click the link in the🧵or scan the QR code to access.

Access and read the #JERPano on: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57569

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18 Sept

Come check out our latest #ComPano piece by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor on The Panorama! Link as 🧵

thepanorama.shear.orgWhat We Commemorate and What We Take for GrantedEllen Hartigan-O’Connor thinks about what centering women’s work in commemorations of 250 might look like in this companion to her recent JER article.

18 Sept

Read "What We Commemorate and What We Take for Granted" by Ellen Hartigan-OConnor on the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/09/15/w...

10 Sept

The Fall issue of the #JERPano is out! Scan the QR code or click the link in the🧵below.

10 Sept

Read the Journal of the Early Republic with a login on Project Muse at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57569

7 Sept

Happy Labor Day from the #JerPano

2 Sept

Access Meagan Wierda's award winning article "Statistics ' In Relation to Themselves'" without an institutional login or subscription. Link in 🧵

2 Sept

Read Wierda's piece at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

thepanorama.shear.org1776, PDA, TMIIn a companion essay to her recent JER article, Serena Zabin explores a previously untold story about love, enslavement, and the evacuation of Boston.

28 Aug

“1776, PDA, TMI” by Serena Zabin on The Panorama! In a companion essay to her recent #JERPano article, Zabin explores a previously untold story about love, enslavement, and the evacuation of Boston. Link 🧵 below.

thepanorama.shear.org1776, PDA, TMIIn a companion essay to her recent JER article, Serena Zabin explores a previously untold story about love, enslavement, and the evacuation of Boston.

28 Aug

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24 Aug

Meet the Author Serena Zabin! Her #JERSummer2026 article: "Everything Must Go" examines the fate of the Elizabeth, the last ship to leave Boston in 1776. Access the #JERPano article via the link below or scanning the QR code and go to our linktree.

24 Aug

"Everything Must Go: Property, Uncertainty, and Freedom in the Evacuation of Boston," by Serena Zabin on muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

19 Aug

Read #JERpano award-winning scholarship for FREE Meagan Wierda's "Statistics 'in Relation to Themselves'" now available without a login thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social Learn about how Af-American activists challenged the flawed 1840 Census and used data to counter pro-slavery arguments Link 👇

19 Aug

Check the box to verify - and read Wierda's #JERPano article with @uncpress.bsky.social free on @projectmuse.bsky.social at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...

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19 Aug

Learn more from the #JERPano and @shearites.bsky.social - access the current issue, visit the civic's exchange, read the current issue, or find where else to follow by visiting: canva.link/vr8iwqs72qam...

10 Aug

Join the #JERPano and @uncpress.bsky.social in congratulating Meagan Wierda on the remarkable recognition her Winter Publication in the JER received this year! Wierda's piece won "Best Article" from: @shearites.bsky.social , @susih.bsky.social , and @berksconference.bsky.social! Link below.

10 Aug

Enjoy the next #JERPano #SummerOfSocials installation! Check out our next set of suggestions in our summertime initiative designed share some of the great tools The Panorama has to offer with educators. Might we suggest giving the following a read. Links below 🧵

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thepanorama.shear.org‘Satan’s Coming!’: Why We Need to Teach Civics AgainVisit the post for more.

Using civic questions in the history classroom, consider giving Jenny Hale Pulsipher’s, “'Satan's Coming!': Why We Need to Teach Civics Again“ a read - thepanorama.shear.org/.../satans-c... which feeds in quite nicely as well to a new initiative SHEAR launched this summer!

civics.shear.orgHome - SHEAR Civics Exchange“Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.”– James Madison, 1791 Welcome […]

The SHEAR Civic's Exchange - connects you with members who are willing to speak about the history that has shaped our civic institutions and civic culture, and the relationship of the past to our present-day civic institutions and civic life." civics.shear.org

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thepanorama.shear.orgLesson Plan: Primary Documents as Material Culture: Encouraging Students to See a Source from All SidesVisit the post for more.

Teaching students to work like historians through primary sources using Elizabeth Kelly Gray’s, “Lesson Plan - Primary Documents as Material Culture: Encouraging Students to See a Source from All Sides” - thepanorama.shear.org/.../lesson-p...

thepanorama.shear.orgCrushed by AI, Reborn Teaching with New PurposeAs higher ed tries to cope with AI, David Head discusses his experimentation with a new type of writing assignment in college history classes.

Responding to AI without abandoning writing, David Head’s, “Crushed by AI, Reborn Teaching with New Purpose - thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/27/c...

thepanorama.shear.orgConnecting Across Time and Space: Using Maps and Memory to Teach the Eighteenth CenturyStudent mapping projects become an opportunity for better student engagement in Molly Nebiolo’s courses.

Using spatial thinking to make early America tangible - Molly Nebiolo,“Connecting Across Time and Space: Using Maps and Memory to Teach the Eighteenth Century” - thepanorama.shear.org/.../16/using...

30 July

“The Misleading Historical Claims of Coverture” In a #JERCompano essay to her recent JER article, Laura F. Edwards discusses the challenges facing historians attempting to chip away at established views of coverture. Link Below 🧵

thepanorama.shear.orgThe Misleading Historical Claims of CovertureIn a companion essay to her recent JER article, Laura F. Edwards discusses the challenges facing historians attempting to chip away at established views of coverture.

30 July

Read Edwards on the #JERPano Panorama at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/27/c...

25 July

Read the latest #JERPano installment in our "250 in the American West" series! "From State in the Union to Domestic Dependent Nation: Lenape Futures from 1778 Onward” David Lehman considers the history of the Lenape (Delaware) nation as part of American history at 250. Link Below - 🧵

thepanorama.shear.orgFrom State in the Union to Domestic Dependent Nation: Lenape Futures from 1778 OnwardIn the latest installment in our series on “250 in the American West,” David Lehman considers how the history of the Lenape (Delaware) nation is important to larger reflections on Ameri…

25 July

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20 July

Congratulations to Megan Wierda the winner of the 2026 the Ralph D. Gray Article Prize. You can find Wierda's award winning article to read (and share with friends, colleagues and students) here on Project Muse: muse-jhu-edu.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/pub/12/artic...

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Congratulations to Meagan Wierda winner of The Ralph D. Gray Article Prize for “‘Statistics in Relation to Themselves:’ African American Activists, the Census of 1840, and the Radical Potential of Quantification” in The Journal of the Early Republic. (@thejerpano.bsky.social)

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20 July

How do you assess a parasocial relationship with a famous scholar after their passing? My thanks to @thejerpano.bsky.social for including my thoughts in the remembrance for Gordon Wood. @kawulf.bsky.social #SHEAR2026 thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/13/r...

thepanorama.shear.orgRemembering Gordon S. WoodFour historians offer reflections on the various ways their careers were shaped by Gordon S. Wood.

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13 July

Thanks to two generous donations, we are offering several hybrid conference sessions. Registration for these sessions is free and open to all. Check out the 🧵 below to scan the QR codes or click on the links provided to register for the panel(s) you would like to attend.

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14 July

Tomorrow! Register below to attend in-person or virtually.

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Join us as we team up with the @amphilsociety.bsky.social for the launch of the SHEAR Civics Exchange! The event titled: "Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026," will take place on Wednesday 7/15 from 6pm-7:30pm. Register to attend here: www.amphilsoc.org/events/civic...

amphilsoc.orgCivic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026 | American Philosophical SocietyThe American Philosophical Society and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic cordially invite you to “Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026.” This event, which ...

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13 July

🙌Free to the Public!🙌 #SHEAR2026 is Here! Register for the #JERPano Saturday (July 18th) Session Five from 9:00-10:45 am. "New Approaches to Freedom of Religion in the Early Republic" Link to Session Five: iona.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Link to all Sessions: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/13/s...

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11 July

Check out "Looking East at America 250: The Nation’s Semiquincentennial out West" the latest #JERPano250! Jason Hanson considers the acclaimed "Moments That Made US" exhibit. Read on the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/08/l...