Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
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We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you. From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with one of our acquisition editors, and more.
You can also check out the newest books published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and chat with interim Editor of Books Scott Heerman.
Featured titles from the Omohundro Institute
Visit the JER page here.
And, check out our journal Early American Literature, too.
Click here for our full list of books in Early American History.
All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent SHEAR conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.
Follow the links below for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.
Titles on Display for SHEAR
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Underwriters of the United States
How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Policing American Slavery
Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
Essays on the Founding Era
Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion
America’s First Abolition Movement
Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
A Cherokee and American Educational History
Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair
Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865
A History of African American Health and Labor
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867
Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
Being Catholic in English America
The Lives of an American Aeneas
An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850
Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence
Grief in Early America
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819
A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region
One Family's Story and the Making of American History
Sexual Violence and American Slavery
The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South
Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845
Emigrant Rights in North America
Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930
Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy
The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood
Taverns in the Early United States
The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations
The Vice President's Black Wife
The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent
Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Migration and the Making of the United States
Consent in the Presence of Force
Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America
A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative
Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South
Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures
How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South
Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865
Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
Free People of Color in the South
The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South
Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Secession and the Politics of Slavery in the Border South
A Political Biography of Edward Everett
Religion and the American Revolution
An Imperial History
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
African American Children in the Antebellum North
Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America
How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery
A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity
Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital
Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom
Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America
Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788–1865
The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era
A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North
Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640–1700
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865
A Black Jurist in a Slave Society
Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship
America’s First Abolition Movement
Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America
Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas
Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions
A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South
Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism
College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America
Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade
Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans
A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States
Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage
Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito