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Job Opportunity: The William & Mary Libraries is seeking applications for Head of University Public History and Robert Francis Engs Director of the Lemon Project. To apply and learn more, click the link below: williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job....

Episode Four of the Revolutionary America podcast is live! In this episode Russell Arbic speaks with Linford D. Fisher on his new book Stealing America. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/linford-fish...

Episode Three of the Revolutionary America podcast is live! This episode features Matthew Mason in conversation with Richard Bell on his new book & SHEAR Best Book Prize Winner, The American Revolution & the Fate of the World. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-american...

And with that, #SHEAR2026 has come to a close. We will see you in Richmond for #SHEAR2027.

Yesterday, President Carolyn Eastman enthralled the audience at her #SHEAR2026 Presidential Address with a discussion of "Demagogues in the Early American Republic.” She revealed that the satirical language used at the time expressed profound concern about the persuasive potential of public speech.

Congratulations to Kate Tyler Wall recipient of the 20 Years of Service Award.

Congratulations to Johann Neem recipient of the SHEAR Distinguished Service Award

Congratulations to Lauren Duval the second winner (not finalist!) for The SHEAR Book Prize for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Richard Bell the first winner of the SHEAR Book Prize for The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social).

Congratulations to Craig Thompson Friend winner of The James C. Bradford Best Biography Prize for Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Lauren Duval winner of The Mary Kelley Prize in Gender & Women’s History for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence. (@uncpress.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Edward Green winner of The SHEAR Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize “Captains and Community: Interdependency, Diplomacy, and Development of ‘Quotidian Power’ in the Choctaw Nation, 1729-1860.”

Congratulations to Caylin Carbonell the inaugural winner of the joint SHEAR and MCEAS G.E.H. Article Prize for “Fraught Forms: Negotiating Servitude in Colonial New England” in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. (@easmisc.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Meagan Wierda winner of The Ralph D. Gray Article Prize for “‘Statistics in Relation to Themselves:’ African American Activists, the Census of 1840, and the Radical Potential of Quantification” in The Journal of the Early Republic. (@thejerpano.bsky.social)

Congratulations to Justine Meberg winner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize for Protecting Women: US Army Culture in the Second US-Seminole War and the US-Mexican War. (@universitypress.cambridge.org). #SHEAR2026

SHEAR is pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2026 SHEAR Prizes which will be announced live here in this 🧵.

Please consider donating to support the SHEAR DEI Fellowships. Link below:

Are you unable to attend the tonight's (6:15pm) SHEAR Presidential Address? Well, President Carolyn Eastman’s address on “What They Talked About When They Talked About Demagogues in the Early American Republic,” will be livestreamed to our YouTube channel. Link here: www.youtube.com/live/0izEG4S...

What a(nother) great event! One slide 3 minutes. 😀 Ten (More) Things to Know about the American Revolution @ #SHEAR2026, following Ten Things in Providence in 2025. Co-sponsored by HSP, ITPS, & @jcblibrary.bsky.social (logo not appearing!) w super thanks to presenters & @noraslonimsky.bsky.social!

We are all set up at @shearites.bsky.social's 2026 meeting! Come visit us in the book exhibit if you're attending, or head to our #SHEAR2026 virtual exhibit store for 40% off books with code SHEAR26 (through 8/19)! https://www.pennpress.org/conferences/shear/