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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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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.

New Interim Issue of COMMON-PLACE Now Launched

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Submitted by Nathan Jeremie-Brink on Monday, March 3, 2014

The new interim issue of Common-place offers reviews of a range of books on religion in early America, including Nicholas Miller’s The Religious Roots of the First Amendment, Linford Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening, Lisa Shaver’s Beyond the Pulpit, and Eran Shalev’s American Zion. The issue also features Anthony di Lorenzo’s review of two books on early American irreligion—Eric Schlereth’s An Age of Infidels and Amanda Porterfield’s Conceived in Doubt. For all this—plus poetry from Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Thomas Hallock, and Joseph Mills that grew out of a Common-place sponsored session at the most recent Society for Early Americanists conference—visit http://www.common-place.org.

Best,

Nathan Jérémie-Brink

Re: K12 Teaching and EAR

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Submitted by Nina Lerman on Saturday, March 1, 2014

I suspect your teachers might find some of these books useful. I'm away from my bookshelves so this list is idiosyncratic(!). A few are "oldies" but I'm thinking about books that would engage the curiosity of the person who has had the US survey but majored in one of the more presentist fields of "social studies", and offer an array of paths into some of the big issues, even if they appear specific on first glance:

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