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By Liz Covart July 06, 2017

Getting the iTunes Feature

iTunes promoted Ben Franklin’s World as a featured podcast the week of July 3, 2017. This was quite special for an independent, non-celebrity hosted podcast and since the feature appeared, many have asked me both how I got iTunes to feature Ben Franklin’s World and what the feature meant for its download statistics. These are great questions and as the Omohundro Institute strives to help scholars further the reach and impact of their work by getting their scholarship in front of the right audience, I’m happy to share the answers. Read More

Doing History 9 min read

By Eliga Gould July 04, 2017

When Did America Really Become Independent?

Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and the author most recently of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. When I teach the American Revolution, I often ask my students, when did the United States become independent? The conventional… Read More

Doing History 9 min read

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

WMQ 7 min read

By Karin Wulf May 30, 2017

Listening and Learning: Welcoming Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World to the OI

We’ve got big news to share. Today we’re welcoming Liz Covart –and Ben Franklin’s World—to the OI full-time. Liz is our new Digital Projects Editor, with primary responsibility for the podcast and the many new platforms we’re exploring to highlight outstanding early American scholarship. In January of 2016 we announced a new partnership with Liz, a series called… Read More

Doing History 8 min read

By Liz Covart May 30, 2017

A Message from Liz Covart

I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the staff at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture as its new Digital Projects Editor. Read More

Doing History 4 min read

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

WMQ 7 min read

By Karin Wulf May 10, 2017

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Today’s post is a reprint from yesterday’s edition of The Scholarly Kitchen. In it, Karin Wulf reviews the Very Short Introduction to Intellectual Property by Siva Vaidhyanathan (Oxford University Press). Intellectual property is the culmination of brain work: ideas made manifest are legally defined and protected to variously advance the interests of their creators and the public good. Intellectual… 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

WMQ 19 min read

By oieahc April 26, 2017

Announcing the Digital Collections Fellowship Recipients

The Omohundro Institute is pleased to announce the 2017 (and first) recipients of the Lapidus Initiative Fellowships for Digital Collections. The purpose of these fellowships is to bring scholars and collections specialists together to digitize, and in turn, make widely available, important early American archival materials. Andrew Sluyter and Lauren Coats will digitize approximately 1400 surveys, housed by… Read More

fellowships 4 min read

By Karin Wulf April 21, 2017

History and Institutional Memory

Exterior, Bruton Parish church It was a bright, hot, beautiful Virginia spring day when we paid our respects to Thad Tate (1924–2017) at Williamsburg’s Bruton Parish Church, his longtime congregation. As Director of the Omohundro Institute (1972–1989), and Editor and Book Review Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly before that, Thad’s formal association with… Read More

memorials 9 min read

By Liz Covart April 12, 2017

Writing Early American History with Sound

Today’s post is by Liz Covart, the Lapidus Initiative Assistant Editor for New Media and host of Ben Franklin’s World. I’ve been thinking a lot about horses. Specifically, what a Narragansett Pacer mare would have sounded like galloping on a dirt road in mid-April in the dead of night.[1] If I were a bystander, I might hear the… Read More

Doing HistoryLapidus Initiative 7 min read

By Karin A. Amundsen April 05, 2017

Meddling Metals in Early Virginia

Jamestown Rediscovery-Omohundro Institute fellow Karin Amundsen discusses the work she undertook while in Williamsburg last fall. The next round of JR—OI fellowship applications is due April 17. Read More

fellowships 15 min read

Uncommon Sense

Getting the iTunes Feature

When Did America Really Become Independent?

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

Listening and Learning: Welcoming Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World to the OI

A Message from Liz Covart

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

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

Announcing the Digital Collections Fellowship Recipients

History and Institutional Memory

Writing Early American History with Sound

Meddling Metals in Early Virginia

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Getting the iTunes Feature

When Did America Really Become Independent?

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

Listening and Learning: Welcoming Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World to the OI

A Message from Liz Covart

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

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

Announcing the Digital Collections Fellowship Recipients

History and Institutional Memory

Writing Early American History with Sound

Meddling Metals in Early Virginia

Recent Posts

A Last Plea for Peace

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

“An Interesting Answer to The Interesting Narrative”

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