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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 Benjamin Bankhurst & Kyle Roberts February 24, 2021

Report from a 2019 Digital Collections Fellowship recipient

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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

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By Janine Yorimoto Boldt April 02, 2020

Using Colonial Virginia Portraits

Exploring a Visual Archive with Students While we are all in quarantine mode, many of us adjusting to online teaching and turning to digital resources like never before, it is a good time to explore Colonial Virginia Portraits, especially if you haven’t already. If you’re looking for a digital resource to share with students, Colonial Virginia Portraits can… Read More

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By oieahc March 19, 2020

Researching and Teaching VastEarlyAmerica

The following is a loosely (and necessarily imperfectly) organized set of online resources for researching and teaching about VastEarlyAmerica. We invite you to add suggestions to the list by leaving your comments via the form below or by contacting martha.howard@wm.edu directly. Resources Slavery Studies Freedom on the Move A database of… Read More

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By Molly O'Hagan Hardy October 10, 2019

Reflections on “Archives-Based Digital Projects in Early America”

Molly O’Hagan Hardy’s article “Archives-Based Digital Projects in Early America” appeared in the July 2019 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. If this article succeeds, it is because the composition of it, like the projects it describes, are the result of back and forth, give and take, what we often call “collaborative” production but which often feels more… Read More

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By Molly O’Hagan Hardy September 18, 2019

A symposium on digitizing #VastEarlyAmerica

Next week, The Omohundro Institute will host a group of scholars working in special collections, academia, and grant funding agencies to discuss the past, present, and future of the digitization of the vast early American record. Specifically, the group will focus on the  Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowships, an effort the OI launched three years… Read More

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By oieahc February 13, 2019

Digital Collection Fellowship updates

2019 marks the third year of the Lapidus Initiative for Digital Collections Fellowships. The recent awards to Benjamin Bankhurst and Kyle Roberts for “The Maryland Loyalist Project,” Julia Gaffield, Jennifer Palmer, and Patrick Tardieu for “Endangered Colonial Imprints in the Bibliothèque Hatïenne des Pères du Saint-Esprit: The Archives Décoloniales of the Age of Revolutions,” and to Daniel Webb for… Read More

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By Allison Bigelow January 09, 2019

Teaching Colonial Translations Through Archives

Today’s post is courtesy of Allison Bigelow (University of Virginia), 2012-2014 OI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellow. It appears in issue 14 of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. The post is based in part on work Professor Bigelow did while completing her fellowship at the Omohundro Institute and teaching at William & Mary. From “Teaching Colonial Translations Through… Read More

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By Holly White December 05, 2018

A Hamilton-Inspired Playlist from Ben Franklin's World

Since its Broadway premiere in 2015, Hamilton: An American Musical has taken the world by storm. For many who have seen Hamilton, the undeniable star of the show is not the young, scrappy, and hungry title character or his tempered frenemy Burr, but the resplendent George III. The sardonic king interjects at three different points in… Read More

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By Kevin Dawson November 19, 2018

How digital humanities can further our understanding of human experiences

As a cultural historian of the African diaspora who employees the paradigms of Atlantic history to trace the cultural traditions of enslaved Africans who were forcibly uprooted and transplanted in the Americas, I was both impressed and inspired by the possibilities digital research offers for adding depth and breadth to our understandings early American history.  Scholars of Atlantic history… Read More

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By Maeve Kane November 14, 2018

A "Digital Research in Early America" recap

In October 2018, I participated in the WMQ-UCI Digital Research in Early America workshop hosted by Sharon Block and Josh Piker at University of California-Irvine. This post aims to give those who weren’t able to attend an idea of the conversations and common themes of the new scholarship presented. Most broadly, the workshop was a productive forum to think… Read More

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