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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
James Bradford Best Biography
2014-2019

2014-2019

Charity & Sylvia : a Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
Madison's Hand : Revising the Constitutional Convention by Mary Sarah Bilder
A Revolution in Color : the World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky
The Dawn of Detroit : a Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
Radical Friend : Amy Kirby Post and her Activist Worlds by Nancy Hewitt
"The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret" : George Washington, Slavery, and the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon by Mary V. Thompson