Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Professor of History @Baylor | Author of *Entangled Alliances* @CornellPress
Waco, TX
Joined March 2010
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This is my latest book *Entangled Alliances* with @CornellPress ๐๐บ๐ธ๐ญ๐น
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Episode Two of the Revolutionary America podcast is live! This episode features Edward J. Blum in conversation with Robert G. Parkinson on his new book Heart of American Darkness. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/robert-gโฆ
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Tomorrow! Register below to attend in-person or virtually.
Join us as we team up with the American Philosophical Society for the launch of the SHEAR Civics Exchange! The event titled: "Civic Engagement in the Revolutionary City, 1776 and 2026," will take place on Wednesday 7/15 from 6pm-7:30pm. Register here: amphilsoc.org/events/civic-eโฆ
ALT The graphic includes a painting featuring people standing around outside of Independence Hall. Graphic Courtesy of American Philosophical Society.
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Read on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/0โฆ
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Check out "Looking East at America 250: The Nationโs Semiquincentennial out West" the latest #JERPano250!
Jason Hanson considers the acclaimed "Moments That Made US" exhibit.
Read on the #JERPano - Link as first comment.
ALT Jason Herberts piece describes the power of the acclaimed Moments That Made Us exhibition, showing how multiple perspectives on pivotal moments can reshape public engagement with America's 250th. Images pop along bottom of page with "The Panorama" banner of Serra statue from (1912) "Francisco Palou's Life and apostolic labors of the Venerable Father Junรญpero Serra, founder of the Franciscan missions of California" (Internet Archive) and "Washington Crossing the Delaware" (MET).
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Introducing Revolutionary America, a new podcast collaboration between the @NewBooksNetwork and SHEAR. The inaugural episode features President Carolyn Eastman in conversation with Lauren Duval, on her award-winning new book The Home Front. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-homeโฆ
Looking forward to delivering the @OIEAHC keynote lecture โDIPLOMATIC DISAGREEMENT: REVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS FOR DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES IN US FOREIGN POLICYโ next week at the Transatlantic Studies Association conference in Williamsburg, VA.
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If you are looking for music to add to your playlist, we have 100 suggestions. Explore Soundtrack to 100 Years, our Centennial Music Playlist! It was collaboratively created by #SchomburgCenter staff. ##Schomburg100 #Music #Harlem
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โBlack Catholics formed the Society of the Holy Family, a center of Catholic & Black religious life in Baltimore.โ
@Baylor_AandS History PhD student Philip Chivily published this lovely research piece in @americamag. Nice work, Phil!
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SHEAR is delighted to welcome Amanda Gibson as the new Civics Exchange Outreach Coordinator!
She is finishing up a postdoc at UVA and once served as Outreach Coordinator at the Richmond, VA Fed. She believes deeply in the power of civic education to strengthen democracy.
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Even if the Society of the Holy Family did not survive the antebellum period, it showed how a West African-rooted Catholicism could thrive in the United States.
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Can't attend #SHEAR2026 in person?
Due to generous donations from the UT Dallas History Graduate Program & VMI's Program in Constitutional History, we're offering hybrid access to sessions in a dedicated room hosting some Friday and Saturday panels.
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Dive into ๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ฆ, where Nicole Eustace reviews ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: vastearly.am/44bgcFl
ALT Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution by Christopher R. Pearl (review)
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SAVE THE DATE! @Baylor is honored to welcome Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, as the featured speaker for the 2026 Beall-Russell Lecture on Oct. 1st.
Additional details will be shared soon.
โThe library is a place that promotes intellectual curiosity. Books inspire people to learn, to seek the truth, to verify information, instead of simply accepting what weโre told.โ ๐
~ Patricia Sargeant / Olivia Matthews
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Thinking about recent Supreme Court decisions? Us too.
Read Austin Stewart's timely #JERPano #ComPano piece to explore how the idea of settler nationhood has influenced ideas of belonging and citizenship outside the period of the early American republic.
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Haitian scholar-diplomat @arthuwebโs piece in @lenouvelliste about our @The_OAH 2026 conference panelโincluding @lesliemalex, @MalickGhachem & @dawnd โon Rayford Loganโs *The Diplomatic History of the United States with Haiti* from @UNC_Press. ๐บ๐ธ๐ญ๐น๐
From Pawn to Perceived Threat: Revisiting Rayford Loganโs Analysis of Haitian-American Relations lenouvelliste.com/en/articleโฆ
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But I submit that those flaws are a key part of our nation's fabric. Just as the hope of a "more perfect union" is a critical part of our nation's fabric.
I believe America can be America. Tomorrow, I will both celebrate the nation, and solemnly declare my hopes for the future
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Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:
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"By the late 1780s, Philadelphia had become home to the largest free Black population in the US. In 1787, two formerly enslaved ministers, Richard Allen & Absalom Jones, founded the Free African Society, the nation's 1st independent Black mutual aid org" phillytrib.com/news/local_neโฆ
