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The JER Pano
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The Journal of the Early Republic and its digital platform, the Panorama. www.thepanorama.shear.org
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 3d
Have you checked out the #JERFall2025 issue?

Meet Angela Murphy, whose “Politicizing the Home: The Loguen Family’s Underground Railroad,” explores how domestic space became a powerful site of antislavery resistance in upstate New York!

Read at: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55590
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 14d
Read Angela Murphy's #ComPano piece to the Fall 2025 issue of the #JERPano, "‘Homeplace,’ the Underground Railroad, and the Politics of Everyday Care” on The Panorama!

Murphy reflects on how bell hooks' work resonated with her research on Jermain Wesley Loguen.
“Homeplace,” the Underground Railroad, and the Politics of Everyday Care
Angela Murphy reflects on how bell hooks’s work resonated with her research on Jermain Wesley Loguen.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 21d
@JERPano invites public submissions to document the rewriting or removal of historical interpretation at federal sites, museums, and government platforms.

Preserve the record by submitting or view previous changes on The Panorama's Early Republic Tracker!
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The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 20d
“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 Long Struggle for Equality in the American South: Louisiana as a Test Case
Building from his recent JER article, Lacy K. Ford explores how Louisiana’s 1845 and 1852 constitutional conventions set the stage for social and political tensions that would shape the state…
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 21d
@JERPano invites public submissions to document the rewriting or removal of historical interpretation at federal sites, museums, and government 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 Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 21d
How did antebellum constitutional politics in Louisiana shape a century of racial inequality?

@JERPano’s latest by Lacy K. Ford traces the long arc of Black struggle from slavery to civil rights through Louisiana’s 1845 & 1852 conventions.

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The Long Struggle for Equality in the American South: Louisiana as a Test Case
Building from his recent JER article, Lacy K. Ford explores how Louisiana’s 1845 and 1852 constitutional conventions set the stage for social and political tensions that would shape the state…
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · 28d
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.

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Washington Post Reports Ordered Removal of “The Scourged Back” at NPS Site
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Sep 16
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."

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Connecting Across Time and Space: Using Maps and Memory to Teach the Eighteenth Century
Student mapping projects become an opportunity for better student engagement in Molly Nebiolo’s courses.
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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Sep 14
I was impressed with this approach to the survey, which uses Yawp. From @thejerpano.bsky.social
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Crafting an Open-Access Syllabus for the U.S. History Survey
Jennifer Black shares a roadmap and useful resources for departments seeking to adopt a common OER text in US history surveys.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Sep 15
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.

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Lesson Plan: Women’s Varied Experiences in Revolutionary America
Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval’s recent article from The Pano.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Sep 9
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...
Planned Closure of Iowa Historical Society
The latest “Early Republic Tracker” post examines the pending closure of the Iowa State Historical Society.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Sep 5
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/t...
Teaching the Early American Republic
Check out recent Pano pieces on teaching to find inspiration for your classroom.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Sep 1
This #LaborDay, explore how even after emancipation "free" labor wasn’t truly free in the #JERPano Summer '25 issue, the "Free State and Slavery," which explores how Northern states used law & policy to control Black labor.

Login and download at: muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
Project MUSE - Preface: Special Issue on Free-State Slavery
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Aug 28
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...
The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Aug 25
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 the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/22/h...
How to Use SNL’s “Washington’s Dream” (2023) Skit in the Early American History Survey
Alexandra Garrett offers tips for bringing an appropriate dose of pop culture into the classroom by using the extraordinarily funny SNL skit, “Washington’s Dream.”
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Aug 13
Teaching the EAR, “A Dramatis Personae for the American Revolution”

Our Authors explain how a cast of characters becomes an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution.

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A Dramatis Personae for the American Revolution
Our authors explain how a cast of characters can become an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Aug 4
"The Original Gerrymanders" is live on the #JerPano!

Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans.

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The Original Gerrymanders
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about Texas Republicans recent redistricting plans.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 31
"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.

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Discussing Slavery and Freedom in the U.S. I Survey
In this contribution to our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Steven Peach discusses the ways that primary source analysis boosts engagement in his survey-level history courses.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 30
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.

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Independence National Historical Park Flagged for Content Review
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 17
Correction: John Hay Library
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 17
Happening now! The #SHEAR2025 President's Plenary!

Come join us in Brown University's Solomon Center.

Followed by a reception at 6:30 in the John Hayes Library on campus.
Manisha Sinha delivering the 2025 Presidents Plenary comments.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 15
“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.

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Arts and Crafts Day in the Research Seminar
In the latest installment of our “Teaching the Early Republic” series, Robert Smith demonstrates the power of material culture to engage students in the classroom.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 7
The latest #ComPano piece to the #JERPano is live!

Richard Newman’s “No Place of Grace” reflects on how the power of place can be harnessed to tell the story of free-state slavery at historical sites outside the South.

Read on The Panorama at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/07/n...
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No Place of Grace: Coming to Terms with Free State Slavery Through Historic Buildings and Public History
Richard Newman reflects on how the power of place can be harnessed to tell the story of free-state slavery at historical sites outside the South.
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jul 6
Still need to register for #SHEAR2025? You're in luck!

Online registration has been extended until midnight tonight - July 6th, 2025.

To register and view all the great events the #JERPano is sponsoring, visit: shear.org/annual-meeti...
Annual Meeting – SHEAR
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The JER Pano @thejerpano.bsky.social · Jun 30
Cory James Young, in a #Compano piece to his #JERPano article on hereditary term slavery in Pennsylvania, considers the significance of some silences in slavery's archive.

Read the companion piece on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/06/30/a...
Active Silence, Archival Presence, and an Enslaved Mother’s Legal Knowledge
Cory James Young, in a companion piece to his JER article on hereditary term slavery in Pennsylvania, considers the significance of some silences in slavery’s archive.
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