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By Morgan McCullough March 02, 2022

Stuff for Your Ears

Learning about Material Culture with Ben Franklin’s World a blog post by OI Material Culture Fellow Morgan McCullough Material culture otherwise called ‘stuff,’ has long been a topic of interest for scholars and students of vast Early America. The Omohundro Institute has recently explored material culture at the 2021 conference “Material Worlds/Virtual Worlds: the Physical and… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 6 min read

By David Armitage February 24, 2022

THERE’S NO BETTER WAY TO FLY. ABOARD THE WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY AGAIN

by David Armitage David Armitage is the author of “George III and the Law of Nations” in the January 2022 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. The world of historical journals, like that of many airlines, has three classes of service: coach, business, and the William and Mary Quarterly. Coach… Read More

WMQ 11 min read

By Nathaniel Millett February 16, 2022

From Archive to Article

by Nathaniel Millett Nathaniel Millett (St Louis University) is the author of “Law, Lineage, Gender, and the Lives of Enslaved Indigenous People on the Edge of the Nineteenth-century Caribbean” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I remember vividly when I sat down and first created the Word document for my WMQ article, “Law,… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By John William Nelson December 13, 2021

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk

By John William Nelson John William Nelson (Texas Tech University) is the author of “Sigenauk’s War of Independence: Anishinaabe Resurgence and the Making of Indigenous Authority in the Borderlands of Revolution” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I did not set out to write a history of an obscure… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Kathryn M. de Luna December 01, 2021

Colleagues, a word! (or two…)

by Kathryn M. de Luna Kathryn M. de Luna is the author of “Sounding the African Atlantic” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I had wanted to write an article like this one, applying early (pre-Atlantic-era) Africanists’ methods to Atlantic contexts since grad school. But, if… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Karin Wulf October 14, 2021

Our History’s Next Generation

A blog post by Karin Wulf Note: This is the last blog post by Karin Wulf in her role as executive director of the Omohundro Institute. Her final day at the head of the team is today. We congratulate her and wish her the best of luck in her new role as the Director and… Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 8 min read

By Elspeth Martini August 19, 2021

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

By Elspeth Martini Elspeth Martini is the author of “VISITING INDIANS,” NURSING FATHERS, AND ANGLO-AMERICAN EMPIRES IN THE POST–WAR OF 1812 WESTERN GREAT LAKES” in the July 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. If Native nations controlled the vast majority of North America above the Rio Grande at the end of the eighteenth century, then the nineteenth… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Karen B. Graubart August 11, 2021

Seeing with Others

How an intellectual collaboration brought four lives into focus By Karen B. Graubart This article began with a generous hand-off from a friend and colleague. Luis Miguel Glave, an eminent Peruvian scholar and regular denizen of the reading room of the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, enjoys taking a morning break from research with other scholars gathered from… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By Karin Wulf July 01, 2021

Blue Sky for the Fourth of July

By Karin Wulf, Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute If there is a year for blue sky thinking—aspirational, bold, and collaborative—this is it. In five years the United States will mark the semi-quincentennial—the 250th anniversary—of its Declaration of Independence. There will be fireworks, there will be speeches, and surely there will be hotdogs. There will also be a host… Read More

AcrossAmerica1776 4 min read

By Catherine E. Kelly June 30, 2021

Time to reset your syllabi, Vast Early America

By Catherine E. Kelly, OI Editor of Books I came to the project that would become Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence the hard way – through the college classroom. Before joining the Omohundro Institute, I taught American history first at Case Western Reserve University and then at the University of… Read More

teaching 10 min read

By Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri June 08, 2021

Situating a Forum in the WMQ

By Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri convened the forum “Situating the United States in Vast Early America” in the April 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. When Martha Howard invited us to write a piece about our recent forum, “Situating the United States in Vast Early America,” saying yes was easy. Deciding… Read More

WMQ 15 min read

By Cameron B. Strang June 02, 2021

Writing Time

WMQ author Cameron B. Strang examines the long process of rewriting his April 2021 article during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

WMQ 9 min read

Uncommon Sense

Stuff for Your Ears

THERE’S NO BETTER WAY TO FLY. ABOARD THE WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY AGAIN

From Archive to Article

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk

Colleagues, a word! (or two…)

Our History’s Next Generation

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

Seeing with Others

Blue Sky for the Fourth of July

Time to reset your syllabi, Vast Early America

Situating a Forum in the WMQ

Writing Time

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Uncommon Sense

Stuff for Your Ears

THERE’S NO BETTER WAY TO FLY. ABOARD THE WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY AGAIN

From Archive to Article

Down the Rabbit Hole with Sigenauk

Colleagues, a word! (or two…)

Our History’s Next Generation

Ongoing Native Power and Precarious Anglo-American Empires

Seeing with Others

Blue Sky for the Fourth of July

Time to reset your syllabi, Vast Early America

Situating a Forum in the WMQ

Writing Time

Recent Posts

A Folder of One’s Own: Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin’s Life in Poetry

J.E. Morgan

Noel Edward Smyth

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