| Summary: | The article discusses events regarding the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). A list of SHEAR members who provided financial support to the society, including Seth Cotlar, Mary Kelly and Carol Faulkner, is presented. The author notes benefits of membership, including a discount on books published by Penn Press. A speech on free trade that was delivered by former SHEAR president Paul Gilje at a SHEAR conference in Springfield, Massachusetts is noted. Author Annette Gordon-Reed won the SHEAR Book Prize for her book "The Hemingses of Monicello: An American Family" and Brian DeLay won the James H. Broussard First Book Prize for his book "War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War."
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