Diverse Interventions in the Public Sphere by Historians of Native America

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Zachary Conn explores how some historians blur the lines between public history and applied history through advocacy influencing everything from court cases to museum exhibitions to popular representations in the media.

CFP: Teaching American and Digital Revolutions

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The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies (ITPS) at Iona University is excited to share a call for papers for our Sixth Biannual Conference, which considers how digital methods and practices can help us to teach the complexities of revolution more effectively.

SHEAR Early Career Mentorship Program

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SHEAR is expanding its Early Career Mentorship Program and is welcoming new members (both mentors and mentees) to participate beginning in 2024.

The Enduring Relevance of Early American Migration Regulations

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In our newest Rethinking Applied History Forum piece, Cody Nager discusses the value of a “history lab” and how debates about migration in the early American republic have relevance for policy debates today.

A Community Remembrance Project Reckons with the Past: A Nineteenth-Century Lynching in Ohio

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Jordan Zdinak considers the importance of applied history for commemoration and political activism.

Missionary Diplomacy, Applied

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If you want to understand American foreign policy today, you have to understand the history of Protestant foreign missions and its deep entanglement with American diplomacy for more than a century.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing for the Public

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Though it’s generally taboo to say, I consider myself a presentist historian. I am interested in history to the extent that it speaks to our current moment and helps us push toward a better future.

Of Hindsight and Foresight: An Introduction to “Rethinking Applied History”

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Over the last few years, I have found myself in an awkward spot. What is my intellectual identity?

Echoes of Spanish-Mexican Women in California’s Constitutional Debates of 1849

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In 1857, Maria Natividad de Haro de Tissol petitioned the Fourth District Court of California to appoint a trustee over her separate property.

TED Talks Be Damned; Or, How I Learned to Build Bridges in American and African American Intellectual History

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A Lodge of Their Own: Creating an Indigenous Voice During Times of Turmoil

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Call for Participants: Fifth Annual SHEAR Biography Workshop

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SHEAR is pleased to announce and invite applications for the Fifth Annual SHEAR Biography Workshop, to be held in advance of the annual meeting in July 2024.

Black Americans in the British Army, 1795-1815

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CFP from the JER: Joy and Pleasure in Difficult Times

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The Journal of the Early Republic invites proposals for a forum of short (2000 word) essays on how diverse people in the era of the early American republic took pleasure and found joy in little things.
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2024 SHEAR Officer Call for Nominations Due February 2, 2024

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SHEAR 2024 CFP Deadline Extended

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Originalism and the Nature of Rights

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Still looking to put together a SHEAR panel?

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