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By Holly White October 12, 2018

Happy 4th Birthday, Ben Franklin's World!

This week the Omohundro Institute’s award winning podcast, Ben Franklin’s World: a Podcast about Early American History turned four years old! This made us wonder, how would Ben have celebrated? Turns out his letters might offer us some hints. In 1767, Ben gifted a poem to Mary Stevenson for her birthday: “You’d have the… Read More

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By Alexandra Macdonald October 11, 2018

Opposing Views: Do Humanists Need to Add "Digital" to Their Titles?

Today’s posts are courtesy of two Ph.D. candidates in the William & Mary Department of History, Alexandra Macdonald and Peter Olsen-Harbich. We asked them to address the place of digital humanities learning—in particular, tutorials in the tools required to create digital humanities projects—in their current work and education. Learning to Stretch the Digital Vellum: Digital Literacy and the Production of… Read More

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By Karin Wulf June 20, 2018

Critical Archives Plenary at #OIAnnual2018: The Afterlife of Conferences

The Omohundro Institute thanks the many scholars who made #OIAnnual2018 such a success. If you have a blog post, bibliography, or other materials related to the conference that you would like to share please contact Martha Howard. by Karin Wulf The OI’s 24th annual conference this past weekend, in honor of our 75th anniversary, will… Read More

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By Joseph M. Adelman May 22, 2018

Call: Reflecting on 75 Years of OI Books

NOTE: We’re extending the call to June 22! Please see below for the link to apply. Over the past seventy-five years, the Omohundro Institute has published dozens of books that run the gamut of early American history and help trace the development of the field from a relatively narrow focus on the English colonies to what we are now… Read More

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By Lauren Coats December 13, 2017

Report from a Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship recipient

Lauren Coats (Associate Professor of English and Director, Digital Scholarship Lab) and Andrew Sluyter (Professor of Geography and Anthropology) of Louisiana State University, in conjunction with LSU Libraries, received one of three awards made last year for the Lapidus Initiative Fellowships for Digital Collections. In concert with other OI projects promoting creative use of digital tools and materials,… Read More

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By Liz Losh October 18, 2017

American Studies Goes Digital

Today’s post is by Elizabeth Losh, Associate Professor in the American Studies program at William & Mary. She is the organizer of the upcoming conference “Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities,” October 26–28 on the campus of William & Mary. The Omohundro Institute is a sponsor of the conference. by Liz Losh The Digital Humanities Caucus of the… Read More

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By oieahc December 06, 2016

Pay it Forward: The OI’s Digital Collections Fellowship

by Karin Wulf   It’s clear that #VastEarlyAmerica includes not only an expansive conceptual, geographical, and chronological scope, but also new and exciting methodologies. The possibilities for doing digital historical scholarship, from research to publication platforms, have expanded exponentially over the last decade; I find this a tremendously encouraging sign about the vitality and future of our field. I… Read More

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By oieahc January 14, 2015

Balancing the Empirical and the Humane in Slave Trade Studies

Gregory E. O’Malley, author of Final Passages contributes the following post. In recent years, something of a divide has emerged in slave trade studies. In one camp, for decades after Philip Curtin published his pioneering The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census in 1969, historians of the slave trade focused on quantitative analysis. Study after study refined our understanding of just how… Read More

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By oieahc December 24, 2014

2014 Highlights

Congratulations to Martha Howard and Joseph Adelman on the launch of Uncommon Sense—the blog and The Octo, the OI’s new online features.   Partnerships of all kinds, with EMSI on the WMQ-EMSI annual workshops, the BGEAH to support their conferences, with the SEA to produce the… Read More

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