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By Karin Wulf March 29, 2017

Exciting News from the NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities programs have been incalculably important to the shared understanding of the early American past. We are delighted to announce two successful NEH applications in support of the Omohundro Institute’s programs this year. The OI was awarded grants both for our residential postdoctoral fellowship program and for the Georgian Papers Programme. The OI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship… Read More

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By Sarah Thomas March 24, 2017

Lemon Symposium “Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter”

The Omohundro Institute is proud to support the Lemon Project at William & Mary. Lemon Project Fellow Sarah Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in History at William & Mary, brings us this account of the seventh annual Lemon Project symposium. Read More

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By Nadine Zimmerli March 15, 2017

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Associate Editor Nadine Zimmerli lays bare a usually private OI ritual, in the process asking what's the thing about things? Read More

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By Francesca Fuentes March 08, 2017

Pocahontas and After

The OI is proud to support the upcoming Pocahontas and After: Historical culture and transatlantic encounters, 1617 – 2017 conference which convenes March 16–19, 2017, in London. 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

WMQ 6 min read

By Adrian Chastain Weimer February 22, 2017

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Today's post is by Adrian Chastain Weimer, author of “Elizabeth Hooton and the Lived Politics of Toleration in Massachusetts Bay” in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By Edward E. Andrews February 15, 2017

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

by Edward E. Andrews, Associate Professor of History at Providence College and author of “Tranquebar: Charting the Protestant International in the British Atlantic and Beyond” in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly Read More

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By Geoffrey Plank February 08, 2017

A fresh look at early Quaker history

Today’s post comes from Geoffrey Plank, professor of History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. His article “Quakers as Political Players in Early America” appears in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. I have been studying early Quaker history, with increasing intensity, for more than fifteen years now. When Joshua Piker asked… Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By Benjamin L. Carp February 01, 2017

Homesick for the Quarterly

Publishing in this issue of the William and Mary Quarterly felt like a homecoming for me. When John Demos taught “The Social History of the American Revolution” during my junior year, he assigned Alfred F. Young’s award-winning 1981 article on the shoemaker George Robert Twelves Hewes. Young included a few lines about Hewes’s apparent lack of civic engagement… Read More

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By oieahc January 25, 2017

Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists

The third annual conference of the Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists meets this coming Saturday, January 28, at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. All are welcome. Founded in 2014 in order to provide a forum for the wealth of scholarship focused on early American history in Virginia, the group meets at least once a year. Graduate students… Read More

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By Karin Wulf January 18, 2017

The OI Guides to #VastEarlyAmerica

Over the life of the Omohundro Institute, the staff here in Williamsburg produced resources with the aim of helping scholars to navigate the early American field. Like the Carnegie Guides I discussed in a previous post, these inevitably reflected a contemporary understanding of “the field” as well as the communication capacity and technology of… Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 4 min read

By oieahc January 11, 2017

OI colloq series begins February 7

The Omohundro Institute’s colloquium series resumes February 7 with a presentation by Greta LaFleur (Yale University) entitled “The Complexion of Sodomy.” The OI’s colloquium series convenes up to six times per semester to discuss projects in progress. Papers are pre-circulated and available by request. Although only postdoctoral work is presented, graduate students at all levels are warmly encouraged… Read More

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That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Pocahontas and After

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

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

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