Tracking the Changes to American History

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The JER/Pano launches the Early Republic Tracker to keep a record of changes in how history is represented online and in national parks, museums, and other historical sites.

Christ vs. Culture, Religion vs. Politics

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Emily Conroy-Krutz reflects on the "porousness of the boundary between religion and politics" in the Early Republic, a dynamic paralleled in contemporary American denominations' debates over issues like LGBTQ rights.

“The Premise of Our Founding”: Immigration and Popular Mythmaking

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Connie Thomas responds to the recent JER conversation on the Revolution at 250 by reflecting on the long running tension between celebratory rhetoric of the United States as a nation of immigrants and the stark reality of exclusionary impulses.

The History Trapped Within “Try That in a Small Town”: The Legacy of Racial Fears in the Early American Republic

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The long history of slavery and racial violence in Columbia County, TN offers additional context for understanding the backlash against Jason Aldean's 2023 hit, "Try That in a Small Town."

Women’s Everyday Experiences of War during the American Revolution

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In response to the recent JER Conversation on the Revolution at 250, Lauren Duval offers further insight into new approaches to women's history and the Revolutionary War.

Free Access to the JER’s Conversation on the Revolution at 250

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Read the new JER article "The Revolution at 250: A Conversation" for free today.

American Revolution or Revolutionary War?

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Inspired by the recent JER conversation on the Revolution at 250, Dillon Streifeneder considers how historians in recent years have worked to bring military history back into the history of the American Revolution.

Crafting an Open-Access Syllabus for the U.S. History Survey

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Jennifer Black shares a roadmap and useful resources for departments seeking to adopt a common OER text in US history surveys.

The Conspiracy Theorists Have Gone to the Dogs

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Chris Del Santo's contribution to our "Curious Sources" series offers insight into the workings of a nineteenth-century technological curiosity: the dog mill.

Ongoing Call for Pano Contributions

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Have a hot take on current events? Write for us!

Dakota Silver Indian Peace Medals

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Continuing our "Curious Sources" series, John R. Legg discusses the diplomatic and cultural significance of peace medals.

Samuel Mather and “An Attempt to Shew that America Must Be Known to the Ancients”

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David Malcolm discusses an unusual source encountered while writing his thesis.

The Archival . . . Grain?

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The practice of "reading against the grain" sometimes has more than one meaning, as Zoe Zimmermann discusses in this installment of our "Curious Sources" series.

Curious Sources: Editor’s Introduction

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Elena Telles Ryan introduces our new "Curious Sources" series featuring historians' reflections on strange, challenging, or otherwise unusual archival sources.

Call for Submissions: OERs and the EAR

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The Panorama, the digital arm of the Journal of the Early Republic,…