Check out the #JERPano's latest “Demystifying the Doctorate” post!
Marina Nye offers helpful suggestions to graduate students getting started on archival research. Read on The Panorama at thepanorama.shear.org/2026/04/21/d...
On Dec. 1, 2025, all EDSITEment content a documentary and source initiative started under the Clinton admin was removed from the NEH site.
Tracking changes and erasures to federal sites matters! View this and others on the #JERPano Early Republic Tracker: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/04/13/n...
The #JERPano's next “Demystifying the Doctorate” is live!
In “How I Learned to Be Part of an Intellectual Community”: Elena Telles Ryan explores how community building as a critical part success in graduate school.
Read on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/04/09/i...
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.
The #JERPano forum “Demystifying the Doctorate” is live on The Panorama!
Grad student & early career scholar submissions that offer wisdom, empathy, and practical guidance for navigating the PhD: thepanorama.shear.org/.../demystif...
Check out the #JERPano Demystifying the Doctorate series on The Panorama!
In “Comprehensive Exams and Other Rites of Passage,” Mercedes Haigler, offers sage advice for surviving.
Read this and others: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/04/02/c...
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5yq2qfmior7k532lrga3f4qo/bafkreideozm6dxuialvdtynuyzxzer2m2dlxyppqnhbg7vubszruy6ujvq)
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.
In the last couple of months, the #JERPano has published some great new pieces on The Panorama!
Check out all the excellent companion pieces accompanying articles from the Winter edition of the JER at: thepanorama.shear.org/tag/companio...
SHEAR is hiring!
Submit your application for Outreach Coordinator as part of the new Civics Exchange initiative. The role expands SHEAR’s digital engagement while growing educator and institutional partnerships.
View the CFA on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/23/s...
Our final Burns American Revolution documentary reflection is live!
Gladney's "Unfinished Business of the Revolution” explores how Ep. 6 captures wartime climax but overlooks the turbulent 1780s, when the Revolution’s promises were truly contested. thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/20/u...
👏 Join us in celebrating Kate Tyler Wall’s 20th anniversary with the #JERPano 👏
Read her reflections on her time with the JER, changes in publishing, and her predictions for the future of academic journals on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/13/c...
👏 Join us in celebrating Kate Tyler Wall on her 20th anniversary with the Journal of the Early Republic! 👏
Read her interview on the #JERPano, reflecting on her experience, scholarly publishing, and the future of academic journals:
thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/13/c...
Looking for ways to give back to the community?
Reminder to get your Book Review Co-Editor apps in to the #JERPano soon - application review begins March 10th!
Submit a letter and CV to journaloftheearlyrepublic@wwu.edu
A new #JERPano reflection on Ep. 5 of Ken Burns’s The American Revolution is live!
Christopher Thrasher considers the episode’s approach to Native nations and the overlooked Muscogee role in the war’s southern operations.
Read on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/03/06/f...
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Our 4th reflection on Ken Burns’s The American Revolution is live!
In “Why Civilians Matter,” Camille Kaszubowski explores how Ep. 4 brings civilian upheaval into view and why these stories help us better understand the Revolution.
Read The #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/26/w...
But...have you considered its archival potential?
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...
Our 3rd reflective post on Ken Burns’s The American Revolution is up!
Donald F. Johnson’s “The Problem of Violence” explores Ep. 3's framing of Revolutionary brutality while encouraging deeper thinking about its larger foundational role and impact.
#JERPano - thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/19/t...
You're all our Valentine - but sometimes companionship goes awry!
In light of today's holiday, the #JERPano thought you might enjoy a 2021 throwback Panorama article by Julie Miller on women's evolving legal status and the criminalization of seduction. thepanorama.shear.org/2021/01/11/a...
Our next The American Revolution documentary post on Ep. 2, "An Asylum for Mankind," is live!
In "Ken Burn's Inevitable Revolution," Helena Yoo-Roth unpacks the significance and need for "interpretation" in history.
Read this and others on the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/12/i...
We spotlight the #SaveOurSigns project in the #JERPano's latest Early Republic Tracker entry.
The initiative is a crowdsourced effort to document thousands of NPS signs for digital preservation and to record those affected by federal mandate. thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/10/s...
"Don't listen to what I say listen to what I mean" - an embroidery hoop ready quotation!
The #JERPano sincerely apologizes for any typo cringe this post may cause. And ardently believes any potential 'show down' should elicit a 'slow down.'
Read The Panorama's first reflective post on Ken Burns’ The American Revolution!
Molly Perry invites viewers to "press pause" while watching Ep. 1 to show down and appreciate the complexity, uneven support, diverse experiences, and decisions facing colonials: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/02/06/r...
We always appreciate the share @americanstudier.bsky.social
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...
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.
