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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

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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Read Carter's "Recording Revolutions" in the Fall 46 issue without a subscription on Project Muse at: muse.jhu.edu/article/1000...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
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Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Applications being accepted now! @smh-historians.bsky.social @thejerpano.bsky.social www.mountvernon.org/library/fell...
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Research Fellowships
Submit an application for a research fellowship at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.
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Stuart Anderson-Davis @srd212.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read the Journal of the Early Republic-Volume 46, Number 3, Fall 2026 "Information Wars" forum at muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/issue...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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.
List of forum pieces and QR code to access Project muse for the full lineup.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Correction: The Information Wars Forum is currently unlocked.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Access and read the #JERPano on: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57569
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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.
"Read the Fall issue without a login until the second week of October! Scan QR or click the link" in the thread below.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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...
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What We Commemorate and What We Take for Granted
Ellen 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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Come check out our latest #ComPano piece by Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor on The Panorama! Link as 🧵
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Read the Journal of the Early Republic with a login on Project Muse at muse.jhu.edu/issue/57569
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Fall issue of the #JERPano is out! Scan the QR code or click the link in the🧵below.
Announcement for the Fall issue of the JER, scan the QR code here or clink the threaded link to access.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day from the #JerPano
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Read Wierda's piece at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Access Meagan Wierda's award winning article "Statistics ' In Relation to Themselves'" without an institutional login or subscription. Link in 🧵
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Read The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/08/25/1...
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1776, PDA, TMI
In a companion essay to her recent JER article, Serena Zabin explores a previously untold story about love, enslavement, and the evacuation of Boston.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“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.
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1776, PDA, TMI
In a companion essay to her recent JER article, Serena Zabin explores a previously untold story about love, enslavement, and the evacuation of Boston.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Everything Must Go: Property, Uncertainty, and Freedom in the Evacuation of Boston," by Serena Zabin on muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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.
Serena Zabin meet the author of "Everything Must Go" for the Summer 2026 issue of the JER.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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 👇
Visual announcement with QR code for Meagan Wierda's article gaining open access status for a limited time by UNC press and the JERPano. Same link can be found in first thread.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Login and read Wierda's award winning piece - Statistics 'in relation to themselves' = at muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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.
Image tile listing the names of the three awards and QR code direct to article on right center
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Read the #JERPano - Statistics “in Relation to Themselves”: African American Activists, the Census of 1840, and the Radical Potential of Quantification at: doi.org/10.1353/jer....
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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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“Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.”– James Madison, 1791 Welcome […]
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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!
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‘Satan’s Coming!’: Why We Need to Teach Civics Again
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Responding to AI without abandoning writing, David Head’s, “Crushed by AI, Reborn Teaching with New Purpose - thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/27/c...
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Crushed by AI, Reborn Teaching with New Purpose
As higher ed tries to cope with AI, David Head discusses his experimentation with a new type of writing assignment in college history classes.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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...
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Lesson Plan: Primary Documents as Material Culture: Encouraging Students to See a Source from All Sides
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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...
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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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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 🧵
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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Read Edwards on the #JERPano Panorama at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/27/c...
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The Misleading Historical Claims of Coverture
In 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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“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 🧵
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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Read Lehman on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/24/l...
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From State in the Union to Domestic Dependent Nation: Lenape Futures from 1778 Onward
In 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…
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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 - 🧵
"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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Choices like these... that make the field go round
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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...
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Remembering Gordon S. Wood
Four historians offer reflections on the various ways their careers were shaped by Gordon S. Wood.
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SHEAR @shearites.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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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SHEAR @shearites.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tomorrow! Register below to attend in-person or virtually.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🙌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...
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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🙌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...
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.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Never know when you may need to whip something revolutionary up!
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Colorado History "Moments that Made Us" Page - www.historycolorado.org/exhibit/mome...
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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...
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).
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Carolyn Eastman, SHEAR President's 'Note on Hybrid Accessibility at the 2026 SHEAR Conference' thepanorama.shear.org/2026/06/23/h...
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Hybrid Accessibility at the 2026 SHEAR Conference
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Share your thoughts on hybrid accessibility by filling out this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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