“Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar” In the latest installment of the "Teaching the Early Republic" series for the #JERPano, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom. Read on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/14/art…

Over a dozen slavery-related displays at Independence National Park including the President's House, Benjamin Franklin Museum and Independence Hall face federal content review. View this and other changes on the #JerPano Early Republic Tracker: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/con…

"Discussing Slavery and Freedom in the U.S. I Survey" Read the latest contribution to the #JERPano "Teaching the Early Republic" series, in which Steven Peach discusses the ways primary source analysis boosts engagement in the history survey course. thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/sla…

"The Original Gerrymanders" is live on The Panorama! Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans. Read this and other reflections on the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/ger…

Teaching the EAR, “A Dramatis Personae for the American Revolution” Learn how a cast of characters becomes an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution. Read on the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/dra…

Teaching the EAR - “How to Use SNL’s “Washington’s Dream” (2023) Skit in the Early American History Survey” Aleandra Garret's offers tips for bringing a dose of pop culture into the classroom by using the SNL skit, "Washington's Dream." Read at #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/22/how…

Help document changes to American history in public spaces & gov sites with the #JERPano! The Early Republic Tracker is tracing these alterations - from NPS reviews and funding cuts to library updates. Submit or view on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

This #LaborDay, explore how “free” labor wasn’t truly free after emancipation. The #JERPano Summer '25 issue, Free State and Slavery, examines how Northern states used law & policy to control Black labor. Login and download at: muse.jhu.edu/article/963421

The #JERPano is spotlighting our "Teaching the Early Republic" series! Check out (or submit your own) reflections, ruminations and creative solutions to teaching some of the most complex issues in American history today on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/tea…

Reminder: The #SHEAR2026 CFP is open! During the semiquincentennial of American Independence the Program Committee invites proposals for sessions and papers considering this epochal event in the early American republic. Deadline: December 1. CFP details: shear.org/annual-meeting…

The cause and significance of the pending closure of the Iowa State Historical Society is examined in the latest "Early Republic Tracker" post for The Panorama. View this and other changes to the historical landscape and infrastructure on the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/i

Who gets to be called a revolutionary? This #JERPano lesson by Shannan Mason challenges students to rethink political participation by centering the ways women labored, resisted, and survived throughout the Revolutionary era. Explore it on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/les…

Read the last "Teaching the Early Republic" #JERPano post! Molly Nebiolo explains how student mapping projects boost classroom engagement in "Connecting Across Time and Space: Using Maps and Memory to Teach the Eighteenth Century." The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/usi…

Department of Interior orders NPS to remove slavery-related information across multiple sites. Items flagged for removal include the famous 1863 "Scourged Back" photograph and over 30 signs at Harpers Ferry. View this and other changes on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/17/ord…

The #JERFall2025 issue is out now through uncpress! Keep an eye out for related content and author info over the next few weeks! Check the Fall issue out in print with a SHEAR membership or via Project MUSE at muse.jhu.edu/journal/295

@JERPano invites public submissions to document the rewriting or removal of historical interpretation at federal sites, museums, and govt. platforms. Preserve the record by submitting or view previous changes on The Panorama's Early Republic Tracker! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

“The Long Struggle for Equality in the American South,” the first fall #ComPano for #JERPano, is live. Lacy K. Ford shows how Louisiana’s 1845 & 1852 constitutional conventions set the stage for a century of political and social tension. The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/lou…

Read Angela Murphy's #ComPano piece to the Fall 2025 issue of the #JERPano, "‘Homeplace,’ the Underground Railroad, and the Politics of Everyday Care." Murphy reflects on how bell hooks' work resonated with her research on Jermain Wesley Loguen thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/02/hom…