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Nominations Due Tomorrow!

Deadline Extended! SHEAR’s Nominations Committee is accepting nominations for officers. The extended deadline is next Friday (2/27). If you’re interested in nominating yourself or someone else, click the link below for more information: shear.org/about-us/off...

Today! Join us on at 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST on Zoom for our next SHEAR Tea Time. Connect with fellow SHEARites to brainstorm assignment ideas, crowdsource readings, brag about discussions/assignments or share horror stories! Registration below: butleru.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Are you the author of a 2025 book on the Early American Republic? Please nominate those titles for our SHEAR book prizes. The nominations deadline is March 1. For more information about our prizes and where to send the books, click here: shear.org/shear-book-p....

Call for Nominations: SHEAR’s Nominations Committee is now accepting nominations for officers. The deadline is next Friday February 20th. If you’re interested in nominating yourself or someone else, click the link below for more information: shear.org/about-us/off...

Join us on Thursday 2/19 at 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST on Zoom for our next SHEAR Tea Time. Connect with fellow SHEARites to brainstorm assignment ideas, crowdsource readings, brag about discussions/assignments or share horror stories! Registration below: butleru.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

YouTube video by SHEAR SHEAR Webinar: Resumes for Historians

Did you miss our January 23rd webinar titled "Resumes for Historians," where panelists provided advice on how to translate academic skills into language employers will understand and maximize career opportunities? You can now view that conversation on our YouTube channel!
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Tomorrow!

Announcement: The @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize

Starting with the July 2026 award, the winner will receive $1,000!

For the 2026 competition, please submit a CV, the dissertation’s table of contents, the introduction, and a sample chapter by January 30, 2026.

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.”

👏 We are delighted to welcome Lindsay Schakenbach Regele as the second of our two new co-editors for the #JERPano! 👏

Lindsay will step into the position alongside Mark Boonshoft, beginning July 2026. Read about her perspective on the role and the journal's place in her career below.

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 Journal of the Early Republic is currently accepting applications for a Book Reviews Co-Editor!

Serve a three-year term beginning July 2026. Review of applications begins March 10, 2026.

View the #JERPano CFA on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/13/c...

This webinar is designed to help humanities Ph.D.s in their search for non-academic positions in a tough market. Dr. Brooke Lansing Mai will share strategies she learned the hard way -- lessons that few of our graduate programs teach us. Join us, and pose questions you have on the registration page!

Join us Friday 1/23 at 12:00pm EST on Zoom for a webinar on Resumes for Humanists. In this webinar, we will share tips on how to translate your academic skills into a resume that employers will understand. To register for this event, click here: vcu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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.”

👏 Please Join us in welcoming Mark Boonshoft, one of the new co-editors of the #JERPano! 👏

Mark is set to take the helm alongside Lindsay Schakenbach Regele this July.

Discover his perspective on the role and the JER's place in his career below.

Assistant Professor of Instruction in US History in Cedar Falls, IA for University of Northern Iowa Exciting opportunity in Cedar Falls, IA for University of Northern Iowa as a Assistant Professor ...

Job Opportunity: The University of Northern Iowa's Department of History is seeking applications for a three-year term Assistant Professor of Instruction in US History, with a research specialty in either the Revolutionary or Civil War eras: careers.historians.org/jobs/2185640...

A Fund Raising Challenge from Immediate Past-President Manisha Sinha (@profmsinha.bsky.social): shear.org/membership/a...! Please consider giving to the SHEAR250 Capital Campaign (shear.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/sh...). Your donations will help us build our endowment and fund our initiatives.

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Reminder: this is the last weekend to get your #SHEAR2026 CFP proposals submitted. The deadline is December 15.

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.

The #JERPano 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!

Roundtable on “How NOT To Write Your Second Book”: Introduction by Emily Conroy-Krutz and Jessica Lepler This week we are privileged to feature a roundtable that was organized by Emily Conroy-Krutz and Jessica Lepler and presented at SHEAR’s 2017 conference. It was such a wonderful discuss that …

You might find this forum helpful. When @econroykrutz.bsky.social and I set up the second-book writers’ workshop for @shearites.bsky.social, this was a standing room only panel. Good luck with the good work!

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#SHEAR2026 CFP deadline extended!

The proposal deadline for #SHEAR2026 has been extended and proposals are now due December 15.

For more information, including a way to connect with other SHEARites looking for panelists, visit: shear.org/annual-meeti...

Join us on Thursday 12/18 at 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST on Zoom for our next SHEAR Tea Time. Connect with fellow SHEARites to discuss Ken Burns’ The American Revolution, which premieres tonight on PBS! Registration in graphic and below: butleru.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Fellow @shearites.bsky.social historian @jmbeatty.bsky.social’s article “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” is out in the latest issue of @thejerpano.bsky.social

Did you miss our recent livestream: Ask Me Anything about the SHEAR CFP with SHEAR President Carolyn Eastman? It can now be viewed on our YouTube channel and at the link below. Reminder the #SHEAR2026 CFP deadline is December 1! www.youtube.com/live/TjP2Y0R...

Ask me questions! Get excited for next summer's SHEAR!

SHEAR CFP Ask Me Anything Do you have questions about the Call for Papers? Join SHEAR President Carolyn Eastman as she fields your questions about the SHEAR Conference Call for Papers.

For the finale of our #GRWS series, President Carolyn Eastman will be hosting an Ask Me Anything livestream on Friday November 7 at 1:00pm EST on our YouTube channel. Join us and ask any questions you may have about the #SHEAR2026 Call for Papers. www.youtube.com/live/TjP2Y0R...

Are you wondering what you can do to make your #SHEAR2026 proposal stand out? For our last #GRWS video, Shayna Murphy packs her bag for #SHEAR2026 while offering some tips to make your proposal stand out to the Program Committee.

Anyone want to put together a @shearites.bsky.social panel on politics in the 1850s? Or religion, parties, and abolition more generally? I think I want to do a paper on Theodore Parker and the Know Nothings.

Are you struggling to find other people for your #SHEAR2026 panel proposal? Here is a teaser for Program Committee Co-Chair @noraslonimsky.bsky.social’s full video offering advice, which can be found on our Facebook/Instagram pages. #GRWS