Editor's Page

Hail and Farewell

The assistance I have received from the members of the editorial board of the JER has made my life as editor infinitely easier. Their experience and guidance have been invaluable, while their willingness, even eagerness, to take on a heavier load of editorial chores is yet another example of just what a remarkable community we have in SHEAR. Board members have been actively involved in the solicitation of manuscripts, taking time during their attendance at scholarly meetings, seminars, and symposia to identify the best scholarship in the early republic and recruit it for the JER. Moreover, they have cheerfully acceded to my request for an editorial board member to serve as one of the three reviewers for every manuscript under consideration. I wanted this editorial board review to function more as an in-house assessment/cross-check by an informed early republic scholar familiar with the JER rather than as a specialist reading, and even after doing the quick math—ca. 60+ manuscripts per annum divided by fourteen board members means that they agreed to read perhaps four manuscripts each per year—there has been no demur. In some journals, membership on the editorial board can be little more than the honorific posting of a name on the masthead, but not here. So, from the editorial office, a resounding and heartfelt thank you to Dan Dupre, Graham Hodges, Dan Howe, Cathy Matson, and Peter Onuf, whose terms expired; to Richard Blackett, John Brooke, Sandra Gustafson, David Hancock, Dallett Hemphill, Cathy Kelly, Dan Littlefield, Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Nancy Shoemaker, and Peter Knupfer (ex officio), whose terms continue; and to Frank Cogliano, Jane Kamensky, Andrew Shankman, David Waldstreicher, and Harry Watson, who needed little persuasion (I didn't even mention my Lochgelly tawse) to come aboard the board.

Call for Papers: SHEAR Conference, 2008

The 30^th annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 17–20, 2008. The Program Committee, chaired by Nancy Isenberg, has issued a call for papers on the theme of "Unmasking the Myths: Connecting the Personal and Political in the Early Republic." The Program Committee welcomes the submission of individual papers and full sessions, as well as seeking submissions that move beyond conventions of the paper-comment format, including sessions in which panelists assess the state of a particular debate and workshops with precirculated papers. Proposals should include a brief abstract for the panel/session as well as a one-page abstract for each paper and a brief vitae for each participant, including chairs and commentators. Every session proposal must include a single coversheet that lists for every participant a complete and updated mailing address, e-mail, phone number, and a current affiliation. Please note that all program participants must be members of SHEAR or register at the nonmember fee. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2007.

Send submissions to:
Professor Nancy Isenberg, Chair, SHEAR Program Committee
Department of History, University of Tulsa
600 S. College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189

Program Committee:

Nancy Isenberg, University of Tulsa, Chair; Saul Cornell, The Ohio State University; Amy Greenberg, Penn State University; Michael Meranze, UCLA; Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon; Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania; Bethel Saler, Haverford College; David Waldstreicher, Temple University.

The full text of the call for papers can be found in the back matter of this issue of the JER.

SHEAR Fellowships, 2007–2008

The Library Company of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical Society announce the 2006–2007 recipients of their SHEAR fellowship programs.

LCP/HSP Fellows

Nicole Eustace, New York University. Topic: "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812."

Sean Harvey, College of William and Mary. Topic: "American Languages: Natives and Philology, Nation and Empire, 1783–1857."

APS Fellow

Nicole Eustace, New York University. Topic: "War Ardor: Sex and Sentiment in the War of 1812."

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