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By Alex Borucki and José Luis Belmonte Postigo September 26, 2023

A Cuban Angle on the Revolution

By Alex Borucki (University of California, Irvine) and José Luis Belmonte Postigo (Universidad de Sevilla) The authors’ article, “The Impact of the American Revolutionary War on the Slave Trade to Cuba” was published in the July 2023 William and Mary Quarterly. You can read the abstract here. How does the essay relate to your larger project and/or more… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

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

WMQ 8 min read

By oieahc 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

WMQ 8 min read

By Catherine E. Kelly September 27, 2022

Change and Continuity

by Catherine E. Kelly Historians are notorious for sussing out the relationship between change and continuity, trying to gauge which is predominant at any given moment. In fact, both are typically in play. Certainly, that’s the case with new transitions for the OI’s staff. From one perspective, we have change, and an awful lot of it: my move into… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

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

WMQ 10 min read

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

WMQ 9 min read

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

WMQ 11 min read

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

WMQ 7 min read

By John William Nelson December 13, 2021

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk

By John William Nelson John William Nelson (Texas Tech University) is the author of “Sigenauk’s War of Independence: Anishinaabe Resurgence and the Making of Indigenous Authority in the Borderlands of Revolution” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I did not set out to write a history of an obscure… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Kathryn M. de Luna December 01, 2021

Colleagues, a word! (or two…)

by Kathryn M. de Luna Kathryn M. de Luna is the author of “Sounding the African Atlantic” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I had wanted to write an article like this one, applying early (pre-Atlantic-era) Africanists’ methods to Atlantic contexts since grad school. But, if… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Elspeth Martini August 19, 2021

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

By Elspeth Martini Elspeth Martini is the author of “VISITING INDIANS,” NURSING FATHERS, AND ANGLO-AMERICAN EMPIRES IN THE POST–WAR OF 1812 WESTERN GREAT LAKES” in the July 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. If Native nations controlled the vast majority of North America above the Rio Grande at the end of the eighteenth century, then the nineteenth… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Karen B. Graubart August 11, 2021

Seeing with Others

How an intellectual collaboration brought four lives into focus By Karen B. Graubart This article began with a generous hand-off from a friend and colleague. Luis Miguel Glave, an eminent Peruvian scholar and regular denizen of the reading room of the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, enjoys taking a morning break from research with other scholars gathered from… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

A Cuban Angle on the Revolution

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution

Change and Continuity

Can historians make archival discoveries?

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

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

From Archive to Article

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk

Colleagues, a word! (or two…)

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

Seeing with Others

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A Cuban Angle on the Revolution

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution

Change and Continuity

Can historians make archival discoveries?

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

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

From Archive to Article

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk

Colleagues, a word! (or two…)

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

Seeing with Others

Recent Posts

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

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Noel Edward Smyth

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