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By Maria DiBenigno and Hilary Miller, PhD February 13, 2024

Revolutionary Narratives, Part I

Reconsidering Commemorations at the U.S. 250th This past summer, over twenty OI Associates from the U.S. and Canada rose out of their beach chairs once a week to join an OI Coffeehouse titled “Revolutionary Narratives: Reconsidering Commemorations at the U.S. 250th.” Organized by Maria DiBenigno, Hilary Miller, and Amy Speckart, three members of the Revolutionary Narratives working group,… Read More

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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 OI July 26, 2023

Emerging Scholars at ASWAD 2023

The OI is pleased to support the attendance of these emerging scholars at the Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) & the Convening of the International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies (ICAADS), August 2-5, 2023, at the University of Ghana–Legon, Accra, Ghana. The OI is supporting scholars on the… Read More

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By OI June 15, 2023

Julia Gaffield Joins Team Q!

We are excited to announce that beginning July 17, 2023, Julia Gaffield (William & Mary) will serve as interim editor of the William and Mary Quarterly while Joshua Piker takes advantage of a year-long leave to continue research on his next book. Joshua Piker and Julia Gaffield Gaffield is a scholar of the Caribbean whose work has appeared… Read More

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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 Blake Grindon 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 oieahc December 12, 2022

2026 and Insurance: A Conversation with Hannah Farber

In this installment of interviews with OI Book authors about the Semiquincentennial, Hannah Farber discusses marine insurance—a topic that seems below the surface but that nonetheless had a significant impact on the Revolution and American independence. Her 2021 book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, navigates a cast… Read More

AcrossAmerica1776books 12 min read

By OI November 09, 2022

11th Annual Rio de la Plata Workshop Schedule (Revised)

Download the Schedule PDF NOTE: Due to inclement weather, please refer to the revised schedule below. Opening Lecture – Friday, February 21st, Tucker Hall, 127A – 10am 12:15pm Zacarias Moutoukias, Université Paris Diderot“Global as Micro: Social Networks, Interactions and Transactions in Colonial Spaces” Friday, February 21st… Read More

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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 Editor September 15, 2022

Williamsburg partners to host "For 2026" conference, October 28-29, 2022

Williamsburg partners to host “For 2026” conference series in recognition of the 250th anniversary of American independence WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Sept. 15, 2022) – The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, in partnership with William & Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, will host a series of five annual conferences marking the 250th anniversary of American independence. The… Read More

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By oieahc September 07, 2022

2026 and Religion: A Conversation with Katherine Carté

With this post, Uncommon Sense inaugurates a planned series of conversations with OI book authors about how their work relates to the American Revolution. It is one of the ways in which the OI is contributing to the Semiquincentennial, the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. In its eight decades, the… Read More

AcrossAmerica1776books 15 min read

By Joseph M. Adelman July 05, 2022

BFW: Experiences of Revolution, Part 2: Disruptions in Yorktown

Each year, the Ben Franklin’s World team produces a special episode for the Fourth of July holiday. This year, we’re going even further, sharing two themed episodes that explore how ordinary Americans experienced the Revolutionary War. On Tuesday, July 5, the second of those episodes—“Experiences of Revolution, Part 2: Disruptions in Yorktown,” episode 333—debuts wherever… Read More

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Uncommon Sense

Revolutionary Narratives, Part I

A Cuban Angle on the Revolution

Emerging Scholars at ASWAD 2023

Julia Gaffield Joins Team Q!

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution

2026 and Insurance: A Conversation with Hannah Farber

11th Annual Rio de la Plata Workshop Schedule (Revised)

Change and Continuity

Williamsburg partners to host "For 2026" conference, October 28-29, 2022

2026 and Religion: A Conversation with Katherine Carté

BFW: Experiences of Revolution, Part 2: Disruptions in Yorktown

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Revolutionary Narratives, Part I

A Cuban Angle on the Revolution

Emerging Scholars at ASWAD 2023

Julia Gaffield Joins Team Q!

A Record of Colonialism's Paradoxes

Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution

2026 and Insurance: A Conversation with Hannah Farber

11th Annual Rio de la Plata Workshop Schedule (Revised)

Change and Continuity

Williamsburg partners to host "For 2026" conference, October 28-29, 2022

2026 and Religion: A Conversation with Katherine Carté

BFW: Experiences of Revolution, Part 2: Disruptions in Yorktown

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Literary Mexico: From the Streets to the Archive to the Press

“An Interesting Answer to The Interesting Narrative”

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

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