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By Karin Wulf June 29, 2025

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

Today’s post is a reprint from the September 12 edition of The Scholarly Kitchen. In it, Karin Wulf asks whether projects that are born digital require a different peer review process. In 2016 the American Association of University Presses released a handbook of Best Practices for Peer Review.  Focused on books, the handbook is intended “as a resource… Read More

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By Kaitlin Tonti July 11, 2024

A Folder of One’s Own: Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin’s Life in Poetry

By Kaitlin Tonti (Hollins University) Kaitlin Tonti was the recipient of an Omohundro Institute—Mount Vernon Digital Collections Fellowship in 2018. This post describes the work she undertook as a fellow. You can read more about the project here. During my fellowship at the New York Public Library (NYPL) in the summer of 2018, I stumbled… Read More

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By Erin Kramer February 28, 2023

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

by Erin Kramer (Trinity University) Erin Kramer is the author of “Coraler’s House: Diplomatic Spaces, Lineages, and Memory in the New York Borderlands” (William and Mary Quarterly, October 2022) In the acknowledgements to my recent WMQ article, I thanked a long list of scholars who were kind enough to read drafts of my essay as I struggled through it… Read More

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By Blake Grindon February 01, 2023

Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution

by Blake Grindon (Princeton University) Blake Grindon is the author of “Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s Mis Mac Rea: A Story of the American Revolution in the French Atlantic” (William and Mary Quarterly, October 2022). Many years ago, when I first became intrigued by Jane McCrea—the subject of my dissertation and of my recent WMQ article—I searched her name in the catalogue… Read More

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By oieahc December 12, 2022

2026 and Insurance: A Conversation with Hannah Farber

In this installment of interviews with OI Book authors about the Semiquincentennial, Hannah Farber discusses marine insurance—a topic that seems below the surface but that nonetheless had a significant impact on the Revolution and American independence. Her 2021 book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, navigates a cast… Read More

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By oieahc September 07, 2022

2026 and Religion: A Conversation with Katherine Carté

With this post, Uncommon Sense inaugurates a planned series of conversations with OI book authors about how their work relates to the American Revolution. It is one of the ways in which the OI is contributing to the Semiquincentennial, the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. In its eight decades, the… Read More

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By Robert Lee May 18, 2022

Can historians make archival discoveries?

By Robert Lee Robert Lee is an Assistant Professor of American History and Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge and the author of “‘A Better View of the Country’: A Missouri Settlement Map” in Sources and Interpretations published in the January 2022 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. A decade… Read More

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By Kristie Patricia Flannery May 03, 2022

"Peer review done right" WMQ author Kristie Flannery on her research and writing processes

Kristie Patricia Flannery (research fellow at IHSS, Australian Catholic University) is the author of “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below” in the January 2022 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. She answers some questions about her research and the process of submitting… Read More

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By oieahc March 29, 2022

An interview with Fabrício Prado about the Rio de la Plata workshop

Read about the history of the Rio de la Plata workshop and REGISTER for this year's session now. Read More

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By Morgan McCullough March 02, 2022

Stuff for Your Ears

Learning about Material Culture with Ben Franklin’s World   a blog post by OI Material Culture Fellow Morgan McCullough   Material culture otherwise called ‘stuff,’ has long been a topic of interest for scholars and students of vast Early America. The Omohundro Institute has recently explored material culture at the 2021 conference “Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and… Read More

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By David Armitage February 24, 2022

THERE’S NO BETTER WAY TO FLY. ABOARD THE WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY AGAIN

by David Armitage David Armitage is the author of “George III and the Law of Nations” in the January 2022 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. The world of historical journals, like that of many airlines, has three classes of service: coach, business, and the William and Mary Quarterly. Coach… Read More

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By Nathaniel Millett February 16, 2022

From Archive to Article

by Nathaniel Millett Nathaniel Millett (St Louis University) is the author of “Law, Lineage, Gender, and the Lives of Enslaved Indigenous People on the Edge of the Nineteenth-century Caribbean” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I remember vividly when I sat down and first created the Word document for my WMQ article, “Law,… Read More

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