WMQ author Joseph Hall shares this post with us about the research that went into his article for the April 2015 edition. In many respects, I am sorry to be done with Gerónimo de la Cruz. I have never had so much fun piecing together a story. What started with puzzling over a curious document about a Spanish expedition in… Read More
Sally Gordon, Convener of the 2015 WMQ-EMSI Workshop As we prepare for the annual WMQ-EMSI workshop, dedicated this year to legal history, it is fitting to reflect on an earlier undertaking in the same field. Almost twenty years ago, the first conference on early American law, sponsored by OIEAHC, convened in Williamsburg. Together with Omohundro editor-par-excellence… Read More
Joshua Piker talks Open Access and Quarterly Subscription Rates Last fall, Karin Wulf, the OI’s Director, met in London with some of the key officials charged with designing and implementing Britain’s Open Access policies. In the course of that conversation, Karin pointed out that STEM journals and humanities and social science journals have very different subscription rates, and she instanced… Read More
One of the OI’s major goals for the next years is to articulate and share the scholarly values and practices that characterize the work of our community from conferences to publications. I talk with willing and unwilling audiences alike about the specific brand of intensive and collaborative editing practiced at the OI. I talk about our editors and our… Read More
by Anya Zilberstein— Like most anything to do with climate these days, climate history is the target of controversy and polemics. A particular community of earnest climate change skeptics sometimes appeals to the historical climatology of the Atlantic world to make their case that global climate change is a process of natural, cyclical variability far beyond humanity’s reach. The… Read More
By Joyce E. Chaplin– Let the record show that I was asked to complain. The indulgent staff of the William and Mary Quarterly requested that I blog about what I thought the journal’s recent Forum on climate history, to which I contributed a piece called “Ogres and Omnivores,” might have included, given more time and space. What’s missing? Well, obviously,… Read More
In a further meditation on his recent piece in the January 2015 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson writes the following. I have long been interested in the place of the environment in economic thought. The growing threat of climate change drives home in a particularly powerful way the need to reconsider many fundamental assumptions about technology,… Read More
In this post, Thomas Wickman meditates further on his piece in the most recent issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. You can read a preview of the article—as well as download the whole issue—on your iPad by visiting the Apple App Store and downloading the OI Reader. Thomas Wickman writes When I began my current project about winters and… Read More
Two weeks ago, I challenged all of us to speed up the editorial process at the William and Mary Quarterly. I noted my own efforts in this regard, and laid part of the problem at the feet of our readers —tireless volunteers that they are— and their understandable but deleterious habits of, first, not responding quickly to editors’ queries… Read More
The Pot and the Kettle, or, What We Can All Do to Speed Up the Review Process by Josh Piker, Editor, WMQ One of my goals as Editor is to make the review process as smooth and speedy as possible. The process isn’t always as smooth or speedy as any of us would like, and here’s a bit about… Read More