A picture of an elderly man taken from behind. He is wearing a cowboy outfit and firing two revolvers at a series of targets shaped like human torsos in a sandpit.

Home on the (Firing) Range: Gunfight Reenactments, “Old West” Competitive Shooting, and the Myth of Authenticity

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A line art engraving of a man with his back to the viewer holding a long knife and pistols in his belt facing an open cupboard with a small man cowering inside of it.

A Plague on All Our Houses: The Uses and Abuses of History in D.C. v. Heller

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A political cartoon showing a soldier labeled "White League" shaking hands with a KKK member in full robe and hood over a and image of a black man and woman and a baby cowering with the label "worse than slavery.”

Men and Their Guns: The Culture of Self-Deputized Manhood in the South, 1850–1877

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Engraving of two men dueling in a forest, each with a second in a topcoat trying to stop them, with a coach in the background half hidden in the woods.

Reflections on the American Gun Control Culture

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Weapons of Work: Firearms and the Pre-Emancipation Black South

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Print of a room full of men in 18th century dress sitting at desks deliberating the constitution.

Back to the Future; Or, Whenever I Show up to Talk about the Past, My Audience Can Only Hear about the Present

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A miniature portrait of a thin white man with dark hair wearing a formal black coat and a white shirt with a high collar.

The Creoles’ Magician: States’ Rights and Nullification in Louisiana

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Ohio Seminar in Early American History Schedule

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A line drawing of a large building set back from a grassy waterfront with small figures moving about in the foreground.

An “Asylum for Mankind”? Migration in the Early American Republic

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Tinted lithograph of a blacksmith in a bowler hat in his shop striking iron on the anvil while a boy works the bellows and another man shoes a horse

The Ghost of the Colonial Master: Modern Political Dimensions of the Wage Paradigm

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MCEAS Postodctoral Fellowships, 2024-2026

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Cutaway engraving of a mine showing a shaft going down through the ground into a cavern, bolstered by wood, with figures climbing in and out.

Colonial Geology and Being Critical of “Critical Minerals”

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Call for Papers: “Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past”

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#SHEAR2024 Call for Papers: Philadelphia, 18-21 July 2024

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SHEAR logo, which is an engraving of an eagle holding a banner that says " Society for Historians of the Early American Republic"

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding SHEAR’s New Partnership

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SHEAR Announces the Winners of the 2023 Book, Dissertation, and Article Prizes

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Lithograph of a river flowing from a lake through a prairie with a few houses on the banks and some boats.

The Roots of Environmental (In)justice in the Early Republic: Development and Dispossession as a Two-Pronged Conquest

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