
Award collection
SHEAR Book Prize
The SHEAR Book Prize recognizes distinguished scholarship on the history and culture of the early American republic. Presented by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, it honors books that deepen understanding of the United States during its formative decades through original research, ambitious interpretation, and compelling historical writing.

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View book & interviews ↗12 author interviews1 links confirmed active

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
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View book & interviews ↗8 author interviews1 links confirmed active

The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
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View book & interviews ↗5 author interviews5 links confirmed active

The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviews6 links confirmed active

The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms
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View book & interviews ↗5 author interviews5 links confirmed active

Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
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View book & interviews ↗1 author interview1 links confirmed active

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
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A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War
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View book & interviews ↗3 author interviews3 links confirmed active

Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
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View book & interviews ↗11 author interviews5 links confirmed active

Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
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View book & interviews ↗4 author interviews1 links confirmed active

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
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View book & interviews ↗3 author interviews3 links confirmed active

Common Sense: A Political History
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View book & interviews ↗3 author interviews3 links confirmed active

Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
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View book & interviews ↗2 author interviews2 links confirmed active

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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View book & interviews ↗3 author interviews3 links confirmed active

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
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An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
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Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic
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View book & interviews ↗1 author interview1 links confirmed active