Recently added articles from Journal of the Early Republic:
"Suspected on both sides": Little Abraham, Iroquois neutrality, and the American Revolution.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Fitz, Caitlin A. ... "This, then, is the determination of the Six Nations," the Mohawk chief Little Abraham told an assembly of New York Whigs in 1775. "Not to take any part, but, as it is a family affair, to sit still and see you fight it out ... for we bear as much affection for the King of England's ...
"A lawless rabble": Henry Clay and the cultural politics of squatters' rights, 1832-1841.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Van Atta, John R. ... Historians have long understood that the settlement of western lands influenced the character of American society. Many scholars once assumed that the Jacksonian Democratic Party, by advocating policies such as the gradual reduction of federal land prices and preemption rights, cared more ...
"Whisper to him the word 'India'": trans-atlantic critics and American slavery, 1830-1860.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Gray, Elizabeth Kelly ... En route from Cleveland to Cincinnati in the 1850s, Mr. Darby, an Englishman, irritated his traveling companion--the Kentuckian 'Squire Henry Gray--by noting his hatred of "abominable African Slavery." Gray responded that, while Darby claimed to oppose inequality, his government featured ...
Quakerism, ministry, marriage, and divorce: the ordeal of Priscilla Hunt Cadwalader.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Hamm, Thomas D. ... Court sessions were major events in Indiana in the 1830s. Local residents came to the county seat to hear the oratory of the lawyers who traveled the circuit with the judge, see friends and neighbors, and perhaps earn a little cash by getting themselves placed on a jury. Those attending ...
Knowledge of Leviathan: Charles W. Morgan anatomizes his whale.(NOTES AND DOCUMENTS)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; Bouk, Dan ... Whales loomed large in the imagination at the start of the nineteenth century, particularly in the United States, where they not only constituted a major source of revenue but also symbolized the unrivaled enterprise of Yankee seamen, who had put British and French sailors to shame by ...
Kudos.(Editor's Page)(Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)(Editorial)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Warmest congratulations to our own Dan Howe, SHEAR's President in 2000 and a JER Editorial Board member from 2003-2007, whose What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for what the folks there prosaically call "a distinguished book upon ...
SHEAR fellowships, 2008-2009.(Editor's Page)(Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... The Library Company of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the American Philosophical Society announce the 2008-2009 recipients of their SHEAR fellowship programs. LCP/HSP Fellows Rodney Hessinger, Hiram College. Topic: "Sexual Scandal and ...
Revolution to Republic.(Editor's Page)(Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)(Editorial)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... This summer SHEAR sponsored two National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty, as part of the NEH's We the People program. A total of fifty community college educators attended the one-week workshops entitled ...
FOS.(Editor's Page)(Society for Historians of the Early American Republic)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Please start saving your bawbees now so that in 2009 you can join our stalwart band--the Friends of SHEAR. Become a Sojourner Truth Friend for $500, a Thomas Skidmore Friend for $300, or for just 150 bucks, a Nicholas Biddle Friend. You pays your money and you takes your pick. So when you ...
The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Watson, Samuel ... The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000. By Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton. (New York: Penguin, 2005. Pp. xxiv, 520. Paper, $16.00.) Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton set out to probe the "grand narrative" of American history, in which liberty-loving ...
Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Foy, Charles R. ... Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World. Edited by Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, and Marcus Rediker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 263. Cloth, $60.00; Paper, $24.95.) As Atlantic history programs continue to ...
The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Nicholas, Mark A. ... The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. By Kathleen DuVal. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 320. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $45.00; Paper, $22.50.) The Native Ground rightly takes a spot alongside the groundbreaking ...
Religious Freedom and the Constitution.(Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Harris, Matthew L. ... Religious Freedom and the Constitution. By Christopher L. Eisgruber and Lawrence G. Sager. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 333. Cloth, $28.95.) Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America. By Ellis Sandoz. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, ...
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Dewar, David P. ... Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. By J. H. Elliott. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 546. Paper, $22.00.) Eliga Gould and others are constructing an approach to early modern Atlantic world studies that focuses on the ...
Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Osborn, Matthew Warner ... Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform. By Scott Gac. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 328. Cloth, $45.00.) If Elvis Costello is right that talking about music is like dancing about architecture, ...
Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827.(Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Cash, Sherri Goldstein ... Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827. By David N. Gellman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 297. Maps. Cloth, $45.00.) Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's ...
"Let A Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-1840.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Leonard, Gerald ... "Let A Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-1840. By Albrecht Koschnik. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. 384. Cloth, $45.00.) In 1840, Martin Van Buren charged that the nation's incorporated ...
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Howell, William Huntting ... The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870. By Trish Loughran. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xxv, 537. Cloth, $45.00.). For literary historians, it has long been an article of faith that whatever "national" feeling there ...
Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Cohen, Kenneth ... Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater. By Jason Shaffer. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Pp. 230. Cloth, $45.00.) Over the last decade, historians such as Simon Newman, Len Travers, and David ...
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; McElya, Micki ... How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 200. Cloth, $29.95.) Spanning an ambitious chronology from contact and enslavement to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Mark M ....