The JER Pano
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!
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- The #JERPano Early Republic Tracker has logged interpretive changes at Lowell Mass. Park on immigrant labor & working conditions - erasing labor history from public view. See this and other changes to history interpretation at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/06/l...
- Help the @JERPano document the rewriting or removal of historical information at federal sites, parks, museums, and government platforms. Preserve history for the public. To submit or view previous changes on The Panorama's Early Republic Tracker visit: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
- How have liquor licensing laws shaped racial and economic inequality? In her #JERCompano piece Equity on the Rocks, Mackenzie Tor links Boston’s 2024 reforms to the early republic's Black oyster sellers, showing how municipal law has long structured who thrives. thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/28/e...
- The exhibit detailing the existence of slavery at George Washington's Philadelphia home was removed following a 2025 federal review. Visit the #JERPano for context on this change or to submit evidence of other alterations to public access to history at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/23/n...
- Philadelphia is suing: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- 👏 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 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...
- 👏 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.
- "Some sources catch the eye only on a second reading." In a new #JERPano post, Michael E. Woods explains how a second pass through the archive revealed a lost letter containing the "Wilmington Doctrine," central to his JER article on proslavery politics. thepanorama.shear.org/2025/12/31/a...
- How did 19th-century Black activists fight for accurate census data? Meagan Wierda traces the struggle from Shirley Chisholm (1970) to the Early Republic, examining Black New Yorkers’ petitions against the error-riddled 1840 census. Read the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/06/t...
- 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
- 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!
- 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...
- 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
- We love seeing so many of our authors on this list! What #JERPano piece is on your 2026 bingo card?
- 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/
- 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by The JER PanoFellow @shearites.bsky.social historian @jmbeatty.bsky.social’s article “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” is out in the latest issue of @thejerpano.bsky.social
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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.
- “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.
- @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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by The JER PanoI was impressed with this approach to the survey, which uses Yawp. From @thejerpano.bsky.social thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/c...
- Who gets to be called a revolutionary? This #JERPano 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- This #LaborDay, explore how even after emancipation "free" labor wasn’t truly free in the #JERPano 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/d...
- "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...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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.
- Correction: John Hay Library
- “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...
- 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... #JERPano
- 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...
- 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...
- What does it mean to teach Lincoln in an era of division and doubt? Writing for the #JERPano 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...
- 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...
- #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...
- 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
