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By oieahc April 26, 2017

Announcing the Digital Collections Fellowship Recipients

The Omohundro Institute is pleased to announce the 2017 (and first) recipients of the Lapidus Initiative Fellowships for Digital Collections. The purpose of these fellowships is to bring scholars and collections specialists together to digitize, and in turn, make widely available, important early American archival materials. Andrew Sluyter and Lauren Coats will digitize approximately 1400 surveys, housed by… Read More

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By Karin Wulf April 21, 2017

History and Institutional Memory

Exterior, Bruton Parish church It was a bright, hot, beautiful Virginia spring day when we paid our respects to Thad Tate (1924–2017) at Williamsburg’s Bruton Parish Church, his longtime congregation. As Director of the Omohundro Institute (1972–1989), and Editor and Book Review Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly before that, Thad’s formal association with… Read More

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By Liz Covart April 12, 2017

Writing Early American History with Sound

Today’s post is by Liz Covart, the Lapidus Initiative Assistant Editor for New Media and host of Ben Franklin’s World. I’ve been thinking a lot about horses. Specifically, what a Narragansett Pacer mare would have sounded like galloping on a dirt road in mid-April in the dead of night.[1] If I were a bystander, I might hear the… Read More

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By Karin A. Amundsen April 05, 2017

Meddling Metals in Early Virginia

Jamestown Rediscovery-Omohundro Institute fellow Karin Amundsen discusses the work she undertook while in Williamsburg last fall. The next round of JR—OI fellowship applications is due April 17. Read More

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By Karin Wulf March 29, 2017

Exciting News from the NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities programs have been incalculably important to the shared understanding of the early American past. We are delighted to announce two successful NEH applications in support of the Omohundro Institute’s programs this year. The OI was awarded grants both for our residential postdoctoral fellowship program and for the Georgian Papers Programme. The OI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship… Read More

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By Sarah Thomas March 24, 2017

Lemon Symposium “Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter”

The Omohundro Institute is proud to support the Lemon Project at William & Mary. Lemon Project Fellow Sarah Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in History at William & Mary, brings us this account of the seventh annual Lemon Project symposium. Read More

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By Nadine Zimmerli March 15, 2017

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Associate Editor Nadine Zimmerli lays bare a usually private OI ritual, in the process asking what's the thing about things? Read More

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By Francesca Fuentes March 08, 2017

Pocahontas and After

The OI is proud to support the upcoming Pocahontas and After: Historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617 – 2017 conference which convenes March 16–19, 2017, in London. Read More

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By Nicholas P. Wood March 01, 2017

Figuring Out Who Was in the Room Where it Happened; Or, Doing African American History with Quaker Sources

Today's post is by Nicholas P. Wood, author of “A ‘Class of Citizens’: The Earliest Black Petitioners to Congress and Their Quaker Allies” in the January 2017 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. Read More

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By Adrian Chastain Weimer February 22, 2017

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Today's post is by Adrian Chastain Weimer, author of “Elizabeth Hooton and the Lived Politics of Toleration in Massachusetts Bay” in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. Read More

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By Edward E. Andrews February 15, 2017

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

by Edward E. Andrews, Associate Professor of History at Providence College and author of “Tranquebar: Charting the Protestant International in the British Atlantic and Beyond” in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly Read More

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By Geoffrey Plank February 08, 2017

A fresh look at early Quaker history

Today’s post comes from Geoffrey Plank, professor of History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. His article “Quakers as Political Players in Early America” appears in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. I have been studying early Quaker history, with increasing intensity, for more than fifteen years now. When Joshua Piker asked… Read More

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Announcing the Digital Collections Fellowship Recipients

History and Institutional Memory

Writing Early American History with Sound

Meddling Metals in Early Virginia

Exciting News from the NEH

Lemon Symposium “Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter”

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Pocahontas and After

Figuring Out Who Was in the Room Where it Happened; Or, Doing African American History with Quaker Sources

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

A fresh look at early Quaker history

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Announcing the Digital Collections Fellowship Recipients

History and Institutional Memory

Writing Early American History with Sound

Meddling Metals in Early Virginia

Exciting News from the NEH

Lemon Symposium “Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter”

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Pocahontas and After

Figuring Out Who Was in the Room Where it Happened; Or, Doing African American History with Quaker Sources

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

A fresh look at early Quaker history

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Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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