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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.

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.
SHEAR eagle against a mustard yellow background with the words #SHEAR2024
SHEAR eagle against a mustard yellow background with the words #SHEAR2024
A grayscale drawing of a big blocky building with columns on the front, with people standing and walking in the street in front of it, and a church in the background.
SHEAR eagle against a mustard yellow background with the words #SHEAR2024
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.
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 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.”
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.
Print of a room full of men in 18th century dress sitting at desks deliberating the constitution.
A miniature portrait of a thin white man with dark hair wearing a formal black coat and a white shirt with a high collar.