Registration is open for #SHEAR2025! Join us July 17-20 in Providence for our 46th annual meeting. Get the details, explore the program, register and book your hotel room at https://shear.org/annual-meeting/.

Call for Participants: Journal of the Early Republic’s From Conference Paper to Article Workshop

As part of #SHEAR2025 #JER co-editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Johann Neem are offering the annual From Conference Paper to Article online workshop.

Click the link to learn more and apply: https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/28/jer-from-conference-paper-to-article-workshop/.

Call for Participants: SHEAR Biography Workshop

SHEAR invites applications for the 6th Annual SHEAR Biography Workshop to be held in-person from 9am-4pm on Thursday, July 17, at the #SHEAR2025 conference in Providence. Registration deadline is May 15.

Click the link to learn more and apply:

https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/15/shear-biography-workshop-2025-call-for-participants/

Call for Participants: SHEAR Second-Book Writers' Workshop.

SHEAR invites applications for the #2BWW to be held in-person on July 17th at #SHEAR2025 in Providence. One virtual discussion panel will be offered.

Click the link to learn more about how to apply and what the workshop will offer:
https://thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/07/shear-second-book-workshop/

The application deadline for the Mary Kelley Prize and other SHEAR book prizes has been extended! The new deadline is April 1.

The Mary Kelley Prize is awarded to the best book published on the history of women, gender, or sexuality in the Early American Republic, 1776-1861.

To learn more about how to submit a book for consideration for any of the SHEAR book prizes, visit: https://shear.org/shear-book-prizes/

The application deadline for the SHEAR/UVA Press Dissertation Prize has been extended! The new deadline is January 20.

This prize is awarded to exceptional dissertations pertaining to the history of the Early American Republic, 1776-1861.

To learn more about how to apply, visit: https://shear.org/shear-book-prizes/

#SHEAR2025 CFP deadline extended!

The proposal deadline for #SHEAR2025 has been extended and proposals are now due December 13.

For more information, including a way to connect with other SHEARites looking for panelists, visit https://shear.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/.

SHEAR invites participants for a reconfigured online Graduate Student Research Workshop for the Spring 2025 semester!

The workshop is open to all current graduate students (or recipients of a 2024-2025 degree) with a work-in progress on the history of the early United States and its world.

Proposal deadline: November 1

Get the full CFP details here:
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSesbPrysVCV.../viewform.

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic mourns the passing of Past-President, Historian and Friend Barbara Oberg.

Linked is an obituary written by Advisory Council member Martha King on behalf of all of us at SHEAR:

https://shear.org/about-us/past-presidents/remembering-barbara-oberg/

The #SHEAR2025 CFP is open!

The Program Committee invites proposals for sessions and papers exploring all aspects of the history and culture of an expansive early American republic, its transnational connections, and Native nations.

Proposal deadline: December 1

#SHEAR2025 will be held in Providence from July 17-20, 2025.

Get the details here from @TheJERPano: https://shear.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers/.

As we welcome our new Social Media Coordinator, we thank Hilary Miller for her service at the helm of SHEAR's social media accounts!

SHEAR is delighted to announce the appointment of Timothy Brown as our new Social Media Coordinator. Brown is a History PhD Student at the University of Connecticut with a focus on antislavery in Connecticut and a public historian working on oral history projects in the state. Welcome to the SHEAR team, Timothy!

And that's a wrap on #SHEAR2024! Thanks for a great conference! See you next year in Providence, Rhode Island, for #SHEAR2025!

We have a great lineup for you on the final day of #SHEAR2024 that includes the SHEAR Business Meeting, a morning coffee break, the final hours for the Book Exhibit, and two rounds of sessions. What a wonderful what to wrap up fantastic conference!

We know everyone's still buzzing after a fantastic presidential address, inspiring awards ceremony, and fun reception, but don't forget that the SHEAR business meeting, open to all, is tomorrow morning! It begins nice and early at 7:45am in the Symphony Ballroom. #SHEAR2024

Attention, SHEARites! Please note a correction to the location and address for tonight's Presidential Address and SHEAR Awards Ceremony. The #SHEAR2024 Presidential Address will be held at Franklin Hall at the American Philsophical Society, located at 427 Chestnut St. This event begins at 4:30pm.

The Awards Reception will follow at 6:00pm at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, located at 219 S. 6th Street.

Have you visited the Book Exhibit and met the #SHEAR2024 exhibitors yet?

The JER Roundtable, Women at the Center: Rethinking the Place of Women in the Early Republic, is underway at #SHEAR2024!

Check out today's #SHEAR2024 sessions!

Good morning, SHEARites! Need that extra caffeine boost for a full day of conferencing? Head on over to the Symphony Ballroom between 8 and 9am today for our morning Coffee Break! Our #SHEAR2024 morning Coffee Breaks are sponsored by Robyn Lily Davis, Ph.D.