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By Alexandra Finley June 29, 2016

What’s in a Name: Or, Who Put the Omohundro in the Institute of Early American History and Culture

by Alexandra Finley I originally encountered the name Omohundro during my first year of graduate school, when I was an editorial apprentice at the Institute. During our training, then-director Ron Hoffman met with the apprentices to tell us the history of the organization, including how it came to be the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Dr. Read More

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By Karin Wulf June 21, 2016

What’s in the Name (Omohundro)?

by Karin Wulf Over the years people have wondered about the name “Omohundro.” Many have asked about the derivation of the name itself and about why the OI carries the name. But there are always questions, too, about how the Omohundro name might be connected to the early Virginia economy that was dependent on the exploitation of enslaved people. Read More

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By Carl Robert Keyes June 16, 2016

Carl’s Guide to Worcester’s Restaurants and Bars

Here it is, uncut and uncensored… Carl Keyes’ guide to where to eat in Worcester. Carl has hosted us before and we can confirm that he is very, very good at picking restaurants. And cocktails. A work in progress compiled by Carl Robert Keyes, Assumption College Worcester is an acquired taste, but I’ve grown to love it over the… Read More

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By Lauren Working June 08, 2016

OI-JR Fellow Lauren Working looks at stories in artifacts

Gentlemen in Jacobean London were fascinated by Virginia and its inhabitants. They pranced before King James dressed like “Virginians” with feathers entwined in their hair. They wrote poems that compared the rapture of discovering their mistress’ body to the glory of exploring the “New-found-land”. They invested in the Virginia Company, and when it went bankrupt,… Read More

fellowships 7 min read

By Ashli White June 01, 2016

Short-term fellow's report from Ashli White

Ashli White (University of Miami), recently completed a short-term fellowship at the Omohundro Institute. In today’s post, she outlines her research project and talks about what she found while here. by Ashli White I arrived to the Institute at the beginning of this month to conduct some research for my project that explores the political, social, and cultural history of objects… Read More

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By Ralph Bauer and Allison Bigelow May 25, 2016

Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’

Washington DC and the University of Maryland, 2–5 June, 2016 Traduttore, traitore; translatio studii; translatio imperii. The matter of translation is central to the study of the histories, literatures, and cultures of the early Americas, where speakers of indigenous, Indo-European, African, and Asian languages negotiated what words meant and who had the power to wield them. From nuanced accommodations… Read More

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By Justin Roberts May 19, 2016

Familiar Sources and Forgotten Colonies

WMQ author Justin Roberts reflects on the unexpected route that led him to the article on British plantation management in Barbados that appears in the April issue. by Justin Roberts As I was writing my first book about British Atlantic plantation management in the late eighteenth century, I found myself burrowing back further in time with my research questions. As I… Read More

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By Josh Piker May 10, 2016

The Five-Reader Problem

by Josh Piker It will, I suspect, come as no surprise to hear that the relationship between authors and those scholars who serve as readers for article manuscripts is an ambivalent one. I try to recruit five readers’ reports for each essay that goes out for peer review. A not insignificant part of my job consists of finding ways… Read More

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By Josh Piker May 03, 2016

“Coming Home”

Fissiparous. Centrifugal. Pluralization. A-synthetic. Comes to find that when I blog about #vastearlyamerica, my inbox fills up with fifty-cent words. Each of those words captures potential consequences of the expansive nature of our field. Fragmentation, dispersal, diversity, scale, incoherence. I’ve been hearing a lot about these topics since “Getting Lost?” was posted a few months… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Susanah Shaw Romney April 28, 2016

5,000 more words

In today’s post, WMQ author Susanah Shaw Romney (April 2016) answers the following: “WMQ articles are capped at 10,000 words (plus notes). If you had 5,000 more words to play with, how would the article be different?” by Susanah Shaw Romney This article started out as a paper I submitted to the WMQ-EMSI Workshop on Women in Early America. The paper I wrote then… Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By Miles P. Grier April 19, 2016

No Second Fiddle

In today’s post, WMQ author Miles P. Grier (January 2016) reflects on the editing process at the William and Mary Quarterly and how his background as a literary scholar affected that experience. I ain’t gonna play no second fiddle / Cause I’m used to playing lead —Perry Bradford by Miles P. Grier In a 2008 Forum, published simultaneously in… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Martha Howard April 12, 2016

#4ContentProviders

Tomorrow, April 13, Karin Wulf and a panel of experts in scholarly publishing will conduct a symposium at Columbia University to discuss major issues facing academic authors today. The event is open to the public and described below. You can also follow along (and/or join in) on Twitter by following #4ContentProviders. In the meantime, you may also want to read… Read More

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What’s in a Name: Or, Who Put the Omohundro in the Institute of Early American History and Culture

What’s in the Name (Omohundro)?

Carl’s Guide to Worcester’s Restaurants and Bars

OI-JR Fellow Lauren Working looks at stories in artifacts

Short-term fellow's report from Ashli White

Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’

Familiar Sources and Forgotten Colonies

The Five-Reader Problem

“Coming Home”

5,000 more words

No Second Fiddle

#4ContentProviders

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Uncommon Sense

What’s in a Name: Or, Who Put the Omohundro in the Institute of Early American History and Culture

What’s in the Name (Omohundro)?

Carl’s Guide to Worcester’s Restaurants and Bars

OI-JR Fellow Lauren Working looks at stories in artifacts

Short-term fellow's report from Ashli White

Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’

Familiar Sources and Forgotten Colonies

The Five-Reader Problem

“Coming Home”

5,000 more words

No Second Fiddle

#4ContentProviders

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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