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."

Seeking Nominations for SHEAR Officers

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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.

Wanted: JER Senior Editorial Assistant

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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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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,…

How Past and Present Catch Up With Each Other

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Discussing his article on the election of 1801, James M. Banner offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.
Photo image of contemporary memorial to the 1811 German Coast Uprising.

Blood Is Thicker Than Water: Black Family Networks and Slave Insurrections

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Justin Iverson recounts the ways that Black communities utilized kinship ties to mobilize rebellion in cases like the 1811 German Coast Uprising.

Too Much Opera, Too Many Novels: Writing about Life, Death, and Yellow Fever during COVID-19

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By exploring her own engagement with opera and literature during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Michelle Orihel makes a case for why historians might acknowledge the seemingly unrelated music and literature they consume while working on scholarship.
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“Unconscionable and unconstitutional”: The Supreme Court Is Using History to Disenfranchise Unhoused People

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Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan's research on Overseers of the Poor in the nineteenth century offers insight into contemporary actions criminalizing homelessness.
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The Power of Paper in the Early Republic

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Among other symbols of authority available to local officials like sheriffs, as Chad Holmes demonstrates, even mere scraps of paper held immense power in the early republic.

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