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SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) Prizes

Book prizes awarded to original manuscripts that deal with the period 1776-1861 in America.

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SHEAR Prizes

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
SHEAR Best Book
2012-2019

2012-2019

  • A Wicked War : Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico by Amy S. Greenberg
  • Among the Powers of the Earth : the American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire by Eliga H. Gould
River of Dark Dreams : Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson
When the United States Spoke French : Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation by Françios Furstenberg
Prince of Darkness : the Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire by Shane White
The Slave's Cause : a History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh : the Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
Skepticism and American Faith from the Revolution to the Civil War by Christopher Grasso
They Were Her Property : White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers