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By Laurel Daen February 14, 2018

From the OI Archives: Our Copper and Wood Printing Blocks, Part II

This is the second piece in a series of posts by Laurel Daen on the history of the copper and wood printing block process used to produce the William and Mary Quarterly until the mid-twentieth century. Laurel wrote the pieces in preparation for the OI’s 75th anniversary while she was Lapidus Initiative Communications Coordinator in 2016. A Look at Printing Illustrations… Read More

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By Laurel Daen January 17, 2018

From the OI Archives: Our Copper-and-Wood Printing Blocks

Our thanks to Laurel Daen for researching and writing this series of posts in preparation for the Omohundro Institute’s 75th anniversary while she was the Lapidus Initiative Communications Coordinator in 2016. A Look at Printing Illustrations in the WMQ in the Mid-Twentieth Century Part I In 2018, the OI celebrates its 75th anniversary. At this momentous occasion, it only… Read More

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By Joshua Piker November 08, 2017

To the Revolution with the WMQ & JER

by Joshua Piker, Editor, William and Mary Quarterly October’s issue of the Quarterly went into the mail about two weeks ago and up on the OI Reader, Muse, and JSTOR soon thereafter. When you open your preferred format, you’ll see that we’ve published a joint issue with the Journal of the Early Republic around the theme of “Writing To and… Read More

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By Jeffrey Glover September 06, 2017

Framing Early American Scholarship

In today’s post, Jeffrey Glover, author of “Witnessing African War: Slavery, the Laws of War, and Anglo-American Abolitionism” in the July 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly, reflects on what it means to frame an article. I was surprised by the readers’ and editor’s reports on my submission to William and Mary Quarterly. I was not surprised by how… Read More

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By Matthew Kruer August 30, 2017

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Today’s post comes from Matthew Kruer, author of “Bloody Minds and Peoples Undone: Emotion, Family, and Political Order in the Susquehannock–Virginia War” in the July issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. Early Americanists are thinking big these days. When, in early 2016, Karin Wulf introduced[1] the twitter hashtag #VastEarlyAmerica and Josh Piker advocated[2] that “early… Read More

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By Katherine Smoak August 23, 2017

Money matters

Today’s post is from Katherine Smoak, author of “The Weight of Necessity: Counterfeit Coins in the British Atlantic World, 1760-1800” (William and Mary Quarterly, July 2017). When I started the research for the larger project from which my recent WMQ article is drawn—a history of the practices and politics of counterfeiting in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world—I had been committed… Read More

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By Tim Shannon August 03, 2017

It started with a simple question

Today's post is from Tim Shannon, whose article “A ‘wicked commerce’: Consent, Coercion, and Kidnapping in Aberdeen’s Servant Trade” appears in the July 2017 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly Read More

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By Nick Popper July 26, 2017

Nick Popper, BRE

Today’s post comes from Nick Popper, new Book Review Editor at the William and Mary Quarterly. The first reviewers of William Robertson’s landmark 1777 History of America tended towards rapturous praise. In June of that year, a review appeared in both the Scots Magazine and the Monthly Review exclaiming that “From the close of the fifteenth century we date the… Read More

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By Karin Wulf June 30, 2017

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

Today is the end of our fiscal year, as anyone who has been getting and reading our encouragement to make a gift to the OI Associates knows. For non-profits, that end of the fiscal year is an important moment to take stock of our resources and to make firmer commitments for the coming year. We are immensely grateful to… Read More

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By James Rice May 24, 2017

What if They Gave an Environmental History Workshop and no Environmental Historians Came?

Today's post is by James Rice, Tufts University, Convener of the most recent William and Mary Quarterly—Early Modern Studies Institute (WMQ-EMSI) workshop, “Early American Environmental Histories,” which took place at The Huntington Library, May 19–20. A list of participants and their papers follows his post. Read More

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By Josh Piker May 03, 2017

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

This post by the WMQ's Josh Piker originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog about "What's Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing." 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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From the OI Archives: Our Copper and Wood Printing Blocks, Part II

From the OI Archives: Our Copper-and-Wood Printing Blocks

To the Revolution with the WMQ & JER

Framing Early American Scholarship

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Money matters

It started with a simple question

Nick Popper, BRE

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

What if They Gave an Environmental History Workshop and no Environmental Historians Came?

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

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

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From the OI Archives: Our Copper and Wood Printing Blocks, Part II

From the OI Archives: Our Copper-and-Wood Printing Blocks

To the Revolution with the WMQ & JER

Framing Early American Scholarship

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Money matters

It started with a simple question

Nick Popper, BRE

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

What if They Gave an Environmental History Workshop and no Environmental Historians Came?

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

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

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“An Interesting Answer to The Interesting Narrative”

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