Begun in 2024, the OI Digital Projects Coffeehouse is a midday drop-in for anyone interested in learning more about digital humanities projects with an early American focus. Hosted by scholar and podcaster James Ambuske and the OI’s Martha Howard, the series invites participants to learn more about the projects discussed as well as how to create similar projects themselves. Most of the sessions are recorded and posted on the OI’s YouTube channel.
Sign up for the link to this season’s sessions here.
All sessions convene at NOON, Eastern Time on the TUESDAYS noted below. We will send you regular reminders once you sign up via the link above. (We do not publish direct links on this page in order to avoid Zoombombing.)
Guests this season include:
October 14, 2025
Deepthi Murali (George Mason University)
Connecting Threads
October 28, 2025
Nicolas Cole (Oxford University)
The Quill Project
November 11, 2025
Linford D. Fisher (Brown University)
Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas
December 9, 2025
Cameron Blevins (University of Colorado, Denver)
Paper Trails
January 13, 2026
Zara Anishanslin (University of Delaware) and Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary University)
Thing 4 Things podcast
February 10, 2026
Friederike Baer (Pennsylvania State University, Abington)
Hessian Soldiers in the American Revolution
February 24, 2026
Holly Brewer (University of Maryland)
Slavery Law and Power
March 10, 2026
Carrie Anderson (Middlebury College) and Marsely Kehoe (Independent Scholar)
The Dutch Textile Trade
April 14, 2026
Jessica Marie Johnson and team (Johns Hopkins University)
Keywords for Black Louisiana
April 28, 2026
Valérie Capdeville (Université de Paris 13)
The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century
May 12, 2026
Laura A. Macaluso (Independent Scholar)
Benedict Arnold and Memory (a work in progress)