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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
Mary Kelley Prize
2015-2019

2015-2019

Liberty's Prisoners : Carceral Culture in Early America by Jen Manion
The Threshold of Manifest Destiny : Gender and National Expansion in Florida by Laurel Clark Shire
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by Leigh Fought
Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America by Nora Doyle
In Pursuit of Knowledge : Black Women's Educatoinal Acxtivism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner