Ronald Angelo Johnson ✍🏾

This is my latest book *Entangled Alliances* with @CornellPress 📚🇺🇸🇭🇹 cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150178…

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-g-parki…

Tomorrow! Register below to attend in-person or virtually.

Read on The Panorama: thepanorama.shear.org/2026/07/08/loo…

Check out "Looking East at America 250: The Nation’s Semiquincentennial out West" the latest #JERPano250! Jason Hanson considers the acclaimed "Moments That Made US" exhibit. Read on the #JERPano - Link as first comment.

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-home-front…

Looking forward to delivering the @OIEAHC keynote lecture “DIPLOMATIC DISAGREEMENT: REVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS FOR DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES IN US FOREIGN POLICY” next week at the Transatlantic Studies Association conference in Williamsburg, VA.

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 ow.ly/WZol50ZkHAp

“Black Catholics formed the Society of the Holy Family, a center of Catholic & Black religious life in Baltimore.” @Baylor_AandS History PhD student Philip Chivily published this lovely research piece in @americamag. Nice work, Phil! americamagazine.org/faith-and-reas…

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.

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. americamagazine.org/faith-and-reas…

Paris : les noms des stations de Métro pris au pied de la lettre. Une série de clichés signée Janol Apin.

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. Links⬇️

Dive into 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦, where Nicole Eustace reviews 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒: vastearly.am/44bgcFl

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.

“The 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 we’re told.” 📚 ~ Patricia Sargeant / Olivia Matthews

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. Link as first comment.

Haitian scholar-diplomat @arthuweb’s piece in @lenouvelliste about our @The_OAH 2026 conference panel—including @lesliemalex, @MalickGhachem & @dawnd —on Rayford Logan’s *The Diplomatic History of the United States with Haiti* from @UNC_Press. 🇺🇸🇭🇹📚

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

Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:

"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_new…