The JER Pano
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The Journal of the Early Republic and its digital platform, the Panorama.
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Meet @shiralurie.bsky.social, one of our #JERFall2025 authors!
In her article “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Lurie considers whether revolutionary tactics still had a place in the emergent Republic.
Learn more at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
In her article “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Lurie considers whether revolutionary tactics still had a place in the emergent Republic.
Learn more at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Meet @shiralurie.bsky.social, one of our #JERFall2025 authors!
In her article “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Lurie considers whether revolutionary tactics still had a place in the emergent Republic.
Learn more at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
In her article “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Lurie considers whether revolutionary tactics still had a place in the emergent Republic.
Learn more at: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
Well beyond the battlefield—firearms were instruments of authority in early America. Explore a new lesson in the #JERPano Teaching the Early Republic series that opens opportunities for students to think about the materiality and symbolism of power and control: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/11/06/f...
Lesson Plan: The Architecture of Firearms and Power in Early 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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November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Well beyond the battlefield—firearms were instruments of authority in early America. Explore a new lesson in the #JERPano Teaching the Early Republic series that opens opportunities for students to think about the materiality and symbolism of power and control: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/11/06/f...
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Fellow @shearites.bsky.social historian @jmbeatty.bsky.social’s article “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” is out in the latest issue of @thejerpano.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Fellow @shearites.bsky.social historian @jmbeatty.bsky.social’s article “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” is out in the latest issue of @thejerpano.bsky.social
Meet another one of our #JERFall2025 authors — Jacqueline Beatty, whose “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” challenges us to reconsider how we define political power in the early republic.
Read on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/article/9693...
Read on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/article/9693...
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Meet another one of our #JERFall2025 authors — Jacqueline Beatty, whose “Rethinking the Gender of Politics” challenges us to reconsider how we define political power in the early republic.
Read on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/article/9693...
Read on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/article/9693...
Feeling the midsemester slump? You’re not alone.
The Panorama's series -Teaching the Early American Republic contains ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, fresh ideas, and reflections to reinvigorate your classroom.
Visit the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/t...
The Panorama's series -Teaching the Early American Republic contains ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, fresh ideas, and reflections to reinvigorate your classroom.
Visit the #JERPano at: 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.
thepanorama.shear.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Feeling the midsemester slump? You’re not alone.
The Panorama's series -Teaching the Early American Republic contains ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, fresh ideas, and reflections to reinvigorate your classroom.
Visit the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/t...
The Panorama's series -Teaching the Early American Republic contains ready-to-use lesson plans, strategies, fresh ideas, and reflections to reinvigorate your classroom.
Visit the #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/04/t...
Read our latest #JERPano piece “How I Discovered That Politics is a Plural Noun.”
Reeve Huston considers the ways political practices in our lives and times reflect a kind of "political promiscuity" that has long been part of the American tradition.
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/27/p...
Reeve Huston considers the ways political practices in our lives and times reflect a kind of "political promiscuity" that has long been part of the American tradition.
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/27/p...
How I Discovered that Politics is a Plural Noun
Reeve Huston considers the ways that political practices in our own lives and times reflect a kind of “political promiscuity” that has long been part of the American tradition.
thepanorama.shear.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Read our latest #JERPano piece “How I Discovered That Politics is a Plural Noun.”
Reeve Huston considers the ways political practices in our lives and times reflect a kind of "political promiscuity" that has long been part of the American tradition.
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/27/p...
Reeve Huston considers the ways political practices in our lives and times reflect a kind of "political promiscuity" that has long been part of the American tradition.
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/10/27/p...
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
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
October 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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
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
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.
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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October 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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@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...
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…
thepanorama.shear.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@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...
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 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…
thepanorama.shear.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@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...
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…
thepanorama.shear.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
@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...
Preserve the record by submitting or view previous changes on The Panorama's Early Republic Tracker!
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
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.
Read The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/l...
@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.
Read The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/l...
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…
thepanorama.shear.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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.
Read The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/l...
@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.
Read The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/23/l...
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/o...
View this and other changes on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/17/o...
Washington Post Reports Ordered Removal of “The Scourged Back” at NPS Site
Visit the post for more.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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/o...
View this and other changes on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/17/o...
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."
Available on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/u...
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."
Available on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/u...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
September 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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."
Available on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/u...
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."
Available on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/16/u...
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I was impressed with this approach to the survey, which uses Yawp. From @thejerpano.bsky.social
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/c...
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/c...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
September 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I was impressed with this approach to the survey, which uses Yawp. From @thejerpano.bsky.social
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/c...
thepanorama.shear.org/2025/01/09/c...
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/l...
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/l...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
September 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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/l...
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/l...
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...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
September 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
View this and other changes to the historical landscape and infrastructure on the #JERPano: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/09/08/i...
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...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
September 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
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...
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
Login and download at: muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
Project MUSE - Preface: Special Issue on Free-State Slavery
muse.jhu.edu
September 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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
Login and download at: muse.jhu.edu/article/963421
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 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…
thepanorama.shear.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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 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...
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...
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.”
thepanorama.shear.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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...
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...
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.
Read #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/d...
Our Authors explain how a cast of characters becomes an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution.
Read #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/d...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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.
Read #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/d...
Our Authors explain how a cast of characters becomes an effective pedagogical tool to help students understand complex historical events like the American Revolution.
Read #JERPano at: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/11/d...
"The Original Gerrymanders" is live on the #JerPano!
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans.
Read this and other reflections on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans.
Read this and other reflections on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...
The Original Gerrymanders
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about Texas Republicans recent redistricting plans.
thepanorama.shear.org
August 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"The Original Gerrymanders" is live on the #JerPano!
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans.
Read this and other reflections on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about gerrymandering through recent redistricting plans by Texas Republicans.
Read this and other reflections on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/08/01/g...
"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.
Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/s...
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.
Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/s...
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.
thepanorama.shear.org
July 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"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.
Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/s...
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.
Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/s...
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/c...
View this and other changes on the #JerPano Early Republic Tracker: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/c...
Independence National Historical Park Flagged for Content Review
Visit the post for more.
thepanorama.shear.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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/c...
View this and other changes on the #JerPano Early Republic Tracker: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/07/29/c...