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