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SHEAR Presidential Address

  1. Conscience and Contradiction: The Moral Ambiguities of Antebellum Reformers Marcus and Rebecca Buffum Spring
  2. Carol Lasser
  3. pp. 1-35
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0000
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Article

  1. "Beyond All Ambitious Motives": Missionary Memoirs and the Cultivation of Early American Evangelical Heroines
  2. Ashley E. Moreshead
  3. pp. 37-60
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0001
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Taking Stock of the State in Nineteenth-Century America

  1. Introduction: Taking Stock of the State in Nineteenth-Century America
  2. Ariel Ron, Gautham Rao
  3. pp. 61-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0002
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  1. State-Building After War's End: A Government Financier Adjusts His Portfolio for Peace
  2. Hannah Farber
  3. pp. 67-76
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0003
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  1. Slavery and the Conceptual History of the Early U.S. State
  2. Ryan A. Quintana
  3. pp. 77-86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0004
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  1. State Power in the West in the Early American Republic
  2. Rachel St. John
  3. pp. 87-94
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0005
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  1. Present at the Creation: The State in Early American Political History
  2. Stephen Skowronek
  3. pp. 95-103
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0006
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  1. The State Is Back In: What Now?
  2. Richard R. John
  3. pp. 105-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0007
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Surveying the Fields

  1. Surveying the Fields
  2. Carolyn Eastman
  3. p. 119
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0008
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  1. Sarah Allingham's Sheet and Other Lessons from Legal History
  2. Laura F. Edwards
  3. pp. 121-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0009
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Review Essay

  1. A Time to Reap: Environmental History in the Early Republic
  2. Catherine McNeur
  3. pp. 149-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0010
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Reviews

  1. The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America by Paul B. Moyer (review)
  2. Shelby M. Balik
  3. pp. 157-160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0011
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  1. Patient Expectations: How Economics, Religion, and Malpractice Shaped Therapeutics in Early America by Catherine L. Thompson (review)
  2. Monique Bourque
  3. pp. 160-163
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0012
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  1. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life by Tamara Plakins Thornton (review)
  2. Todd Timmons
  3. pp. 163-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0013
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  1. National Duties: Custom Houses and the Making of the American State by Gautham Rao (review)
  2. Robin L. Einhorn
  3. pp. 166-169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0014
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  1. Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent by Wendell Bird (review)
  2. Matthew Crow
  3. pp. 169-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0015
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  1. Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Mark G. Schmeller (review)
  2. Todd Estes
  3. pp. 172-174
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0016
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  1. The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States by Kevin Butterfield (review)
  2. Williamjames Hull Hoffer
  3. pp. 175-177
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0017
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  1. The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race by Donald Ratcliffe (review)
  2. Thomas Coens
  3. pp. 177-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0018
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  1. Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics by Corey M. Brooks (review)
  2. Nicholas P. Wood
  3. pp. 181-183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0019
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  1. The Lives of Frederick Douglass by Robert S. Levine (review)
  2. Leigh Fought
  3. pp. 184-186
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0020
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  1. The Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane White (review)
  2. Christopher Bonner
  3. pp. 187-189
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0021
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  1. Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland by Bridget Ford (review)
  2. Jeffrey Thomas Perry
  3. pp. 189-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0022
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  1. New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community and Comparison ed. by Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears (review)
  2. Emily West
  3. pp. 192-95
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0023
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  1. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 by Benjamin Madley (review)
  2. Brendan Lindsay
  3. pp. 195-198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2018.0024
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