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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
2020-2029

2020-2029

A Question of Freedom : the Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III

Fighting for the Higher Law : Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery by Peter Wiirzbicki