As higher ed tries to cope with AI, David Head discusses his experimentation with a new type of writing assignment in college history classes.| The Panorama
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.”| The Panorama
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.| The Panorama
Kevin Vrevich offers historical context for thinking about Texas Republicans recent redistricting plans.| The Panorama
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.| The Panorama
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.| The Panorama
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.| The Panorama
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.| The Panorama
In the first installment of our new “Teaching the Early American Republic” series, David Gellman explores the challenges of teaching Abraham Lincoln in 2025.| The Panorama
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As the semiquincentennial approaches, Miriam Liebman comments on historiographical shifts relating to women’s and diplomatic history in the era of the Revolution.| The Panorama
Open to anybody who has presented a conference paper on the era of the early republic in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025.| The Panorama
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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, museums, websites, and executive agencies.| The Panorama
The JER/Pano launches the Early Republic Tracker to keep a record of changes in how history is represented online and in national parks, museums, and other historical sites.| The Panorama
Emily Conroy-Krutz reflects on the “porousness of the boundary between religion and politics” in the Early Republic, a dynamic paralleled in contemporary American denominations’ d…| The Panorama
Connie Thomas responds to the recent JER conversation on the Revolution at 250 by reflecting on the long running tension between celebratory rhetoric of the United States as a nation of immigrants …| The Panorama
The long history of slavery and racial violence in Columbia County, TN offers additional context for understanding the backlash against Jason Aldean's 2023 hit, "Try That in a Small Town."| The Panorama
