As @SHEARites begins its partnership transition and we prepare for future collaborations, the #JER wanted to take a moment and express our deep appreciation and gratitude for our tremendous colleagues @PennPress. Thank you for all your support of the #JER and #JERPano. #SHEAR2023

After a really enriching and enjoyable experience at #SHEAR2023, I’ve returned home to work and apply lots of things that I’ve learned. There are four big takeaways (or perhaps meta-takeaways) from the conference that I want to expand on at some point, but will put down here for starters. The first is a lesson about scholarship, and the other three are about organizations. Here’s goes.

Last session of the day and for me: "Black and Indigenous Citizenship and Belonging." Gabriel Loiacono (Wisconsin-Oshkosh) looked at the enforcement of the Poor Law to see how people were judged to be insiders and outsiders -- a town might force a person to leave while another town would accept and care for them.

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Last day of SHEAR! First session for me: "Black Thought in and beyond the Early Republic." Michael Dickinson (VCU) gave a close reading of Henry Box Brown's narrative, looking in particular at the silences in the book. Number of great insights as to the evidence of trauma and difficulty of family separation, and an investigation of what Brown does NOT say, people who go unnamed, etc.

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I’ve had an incredible weekend @SHEARites this weekend, and will return home later today intellectually and socially energized. #SHEAR2023

V sorry to be missing @emily_sneff’s greet paper this am at #SHEAR2023 - her work on the Declaration of Independence is so fresh and important.

Rise and shine, SHEARites! It’s the final day of #SHEAR2023 in Philadelphia!

Our morning begins with the SHEAR Business Meeting at 7:45am.

Last one today: roundtable on "Judging the Early Republic: Today's Supreme Court and the Responsibilities of Historians." Large panel of Jonathan Gienapp (Stanford), Jack Balkin (Yale), Julian Mortensen (Michigan), Rachel Sheldon (Penn State), and Alison LaCroix (Chicago). Excellent discussion of the Supreme Court, how lawyers use history, and how historians can contribute their own understanding of the past to legal proceedings.

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The #JER is dressed and ready for the #SHEAR2023 keynote and awards ceremony⬇️ Thank you again to our outgoing editor and dear friend Andy Shankman for all your service!

The #SHEAR2023 Presidential Address and SHEAR awards ceremony will begin at 6:00pm at the conference hotel.

SHEARites, have we got a treat for you! That is, traditional Philadelphia treats! The Philly Water Ice and Soft Pretzel Social starts at 5:30pm. #SHEAR2023

Next session for me: "Race, Slavery, and Freedom beyond the United States." Papers by Alexander Chaparro-Silva (Texas), Alison McCann (Miami), and Desha Osborne (Edinburgh). In the words of the commentator, these papers were about global people who were part of communities that were already transnational. They did not think much about moving across border, they were part of communities that already straddled borders

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@jbf1755 we need to have a lot of conversations about basic civics. We can have these conversations by asking questions to start a dialogue. DeSantis' first book states that there is no room for dialogue, but we do need dialogue. #SHEAR2023 #S39

Lindsay Chervinsky encourages everyone to try and open dialogues with small c conservatives and get to know their viewpoints better.

@jbf1755 states again that a lot of people don't know what democracy is. She encourages us to have discussion with people about democracy. #SHEAR2023 #S39

Connie Schultz notes that at the founding of SHEAR and embedded into the organization is the need to have discussions with small c conservatives. Jim Broussard was a small c conservative and thought dialogue between people with different political ideas was important. #SHEAR2023 #S39

@sethcotlar notes there is a lot of religion in DeSantis' first book, but intellectually with religion is very thin. He argues that Obama is not really a Christian. You would never know from reading DeSantis' book that he's Catholic. It reads like the U.S. is a Christian Nation and Obama is not a Christian. #SHEAR2023 #S39

Richard John notes that religion was not a topic that was brought up in reference to DeSantis' books. Is there an intellectual basis for bringing up natural order or natural law, which is a Catholic orthodoxy? #SHEAR2023 #S39

Time for Q&A. #SHEAR2023 #S39

Adams: There is a hostile takeover by DeSantis of New College in Florida. Chris Ruffo is on the Board of Trustees and he described the hostile takeover of a left-leaning institution. They are branding it the Hillsdale of the South.
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Adams has taught at CFU to University of Florida throughout his career. What happens in Florida is you get an idea of bad legislation coming down the pike and then representatives find a way to water down the legislation or killing it. This has not happened under DeSantis. He has been getting this legislation passed. #SHEAR2023 #S39