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By Janine Yorimoto Boldt August 31, 2020

Jack Custis, Race, and the Unseen in Colonial Virginia Portraits

One painfully obvious fact as one scrolls through Colonial Virginia Portraits is that the faces are overwhelmingly white. Colonial Virginia Portraits includes more than 500 recorded portraits of which approximately 95 are documented but no longer extant. Only four of the total represent a non-white person. Three of these feature unnamed individuals who are included in the portraits… Read More

digital projects 13 min read

By Ann M. Little August 05, 2020

“A Good Receipt for the Womb:” Lady Augusta Murray’s Book of Cures

By Ann M. Little, Colorado State University Professor Little was awarded an Omohundro Institute—– Georgian Papers Programme fellowship in 2016 and conducted research in the archives at Windsor Castle in summer 2017. Applications for the fall 2020 round of Georgian Papers Programme fellowships will be posted on the OI website later in August. Amidst our twenty-first century… Read More

Georgian Papers Programme 25 min read

By Joshua Piker and Karin Wulf July 23, 2020

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

If Early American history had a traditional newspaper a number of events over the last months would have produced top-of-the-fold, all-caps headlines about Native American and Indigenous Studies. One of these was the April publication of an exchange in the American Historical Review entitled “Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies.” Begun as a review of Lisa Brooks’s… Read More

NAIS 15 min read

By Liz Covart July 08, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Remote Interviews

How can you record remote guests and phone calls? These were two questions people sent my way on Twitter when I asked what questions people had about mics, lighting, and sound for their virtual programs and courses. In this last post of our three-post series on the subject of… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 11 min read

By Liz Covart July 07, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Video

I’ve seen a lot of questions about mics, lighting, and sound floating around on Twitter as more museums and institutions move their public programming online and as educators move their teaching online. Many people want to know how they can record the best audio and video for their projects. Today’s post is the second in a three-post series… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 10 min read

By Liz Covart July 06, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Sound

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the world to adapt from in-person activities, such as work and school, to at-home activities. With many museums and institutions moving their public programming online and educators moving their teaching online, I’ve seen a lot of questions about mics, lighting, and sound floating around on Twitter. These are areas I know quite well… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 13 min read

By Derrick R. Spires June 30, 2020

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

Frontispiece. Walker’s Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life by Henry Highland Garnet and also Garnet’s Address to the Slaves of the United States of America. (New York: J.H. Tobitt, 1848). Library of Congress. For Black citizens of the early United States, the Fourth of July was a yearly… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 23 min read

By Allison Bigelow June 25, 2020

To tell new stories

We asked OI author Allison Bigelow (Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World) if she wanted to write a post about her new book. Rather than talk… Read More

books 8 min read

By M. Scott Heerman June 18, 2020

Tracking "Slavery in Motion"

In this post, WMQ author M. Scott Heerman discusses what he would have done with a larger word limit for his article, “Abolishing Slavery in Motion: Foreign Captivity and International Abolitionism in the Early United States,” in the April 2020 issue. Through September 30, you can read this article for free on the OI Reader. We will close… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By Jenny Shaw June 10, 2020

Finding Susannah Mingo

In this post, WMQ author Jenny Shaw recounts how she came to research and write the story of Susannah Mingo for the April 2020 issue. Through September 30, you can read this article for free on the OI Reader. We will close the beta period of the OI Reader on October 1. After that, all… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By oieahc June 05, 2020

Words and deeds

Sent to the Omohundro Institute mailing list on June 5, 2020. Friday, June 5, 2020 We are witnessing ongoing protests across our country and around the world against police violence and other forms of systemic racism that are slavery’s tenacious legacy. As people are moving their feet and lifting their voices together, individuals and organizations are speaking out in… Read More

News/Announcements 5 min read

By Tamara Plakins Thornton June 03, 2020

Global Knowledge, Eighteenth-Century Style

In this post, WMQ author Tamara Plakins Thornton recounts how she came to understand eighteenth-century globes and how that changed the way she needed them illustrated for her article in the April 2020 issue. Through September 30, you can read this article for free on the OI Reader. We will close the beta period of the OI Reader… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

Jack Custis, Race, and the Unseen in Colonial Virginia Portraits

“A Good Receipt for the Womb:” Lady Augusta Murray’s Book of Cures

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Remote Interviews

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Video

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Sound

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

To tell new stories

Tracking "Slavery in Motion"

Finding Susannah Mingo

Words and deeds

Global Knowledge, Eighteenth-Century Style

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Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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Jack Custis, Race, and the Unseen in Colonial Virginia Portraits

“A Good Receipt for the Womb:” Lady Augusta Murray’s Book of Cures

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Remote Interviews

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Video

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Sound

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

To tell new stories

Tracking "Slavery in Motion"

Finding Susannah Mingo

Words and deeds

Global Knowledge, Eighteenth-Century Style

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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