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H-SHEAR is dedicated to enhancing scholarly communication on the history of the early American republic, during the period 1775 to 1860. The network is sponsored by SHEAR, the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, and is owned by H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online, currently centered at Michigan State University.  Click here to learn more...

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XPost Discussion: 12 Years A Slave

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Submitted by H-SHEAR Editor Peter Knupfer on Sunday, March 9, 2014

Our colleagues at H-Afro-Am and H-Slavery have been offering commentary and links to blogs and columns about this award-winning film.  I have linked to a dynamic saved search that updates with any items tagged with the film's title.  You can bookmark it in your browser, save it in your MyHNet space, or occasionally return to H-SHEAR and click on its link in the right menu on the front page of our network.

Readers who want to explore further can conduct a search across the H-Net Commons, which can be filtered by tags and categories to tease out more pertinent references.

regards

Peter

State-Issued Passports

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Submitted by Mark Peterson on Friday, March 7, 2014

I recently came across the fact that in the early years of the republic, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued passports to its citizens traveling overseas.  These were pre-printed documents, with the traveler's name and birthplace filled in to blank spaces, and signed and sealed by the Governor.   I'm curious, though, to find out if other states in the union engaged in the same practice.  Recent works on the history of the passport in America do not mention the existence of state passports.  If anyone familiar with the archives of other states has run across these documents or knows of references to them, I would be very eager to hear about it, either through this discussion network or by email.

Thanks,

Mark Peterson

Dept of History, UC-Berkeley

CFP: Human Trafficking in Early America (Deadline 15 April 2014)

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Submitted by Richard Bell on Thursday, March 6, 2014

Call for Papers (Deadline: 15 April 2014)
Human Trafficking in Early America
23-25 April 2015

http://www.mceas.org/trafficking-cfp.pdf


An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania,
and co-sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the
Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the
Department of History at Drew University.

Co-organizers: Richard Bell (Maryland) and Sharon Braslaw Sundue (Drew)

Proposed changes to NHPRC grants for documentary editions

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Submitted by James McClure on Wednesday, March 5, 2014

To see comments by documentary editors on the proposed major changes to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant programs, go to the NHPRC's blog postings at:

http://blogs.archives.gov/nhprc/2014/02/12/online-publishing-of-historical-records/

http://blogs.archives.gov/nhprc/2014/02/11/a-time-of-opportunity-and-change/

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Deadline March 21: AAS/CHAViC Summer Seminar on the Art of Science and Technology

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Submitted by Paul Erickson on Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) at the American Antiquarian Society encourages and facilitates the use and understanding of popular images by scholars in a variety of disciplines including American studies, history, art and architectural history, English, gender studies, literature, religion, theatre, and environmental studies. The 2014 Summer Seminar, The Art of Science and Technology, 1750-1900, will be held Sunday July 13 through Thursday July 17 at the American Antiquarian Society’s library in Worcester, MA.

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