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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

By Josh Piker March 22, 2021

Digital History Publishing and You. Yes You.

The OI reader is a powerful tool for doing the sort of work that early Americanists do. Why not think about taking it for a spin? Read More

WMQ 13 min read

By Gordon M. Sayre March 17, 2021

TJ takes on Buffon

By Gordon M. Sayre, author of “Jefferson Takes on Buffon: The Polemic on American Animals in Notes on the State of Virginia” in the January 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia has intrigued me for my entire career. In my dissertation research I read… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By Whitney Barlow Robles March 03, 2021

Science for the History of Science: An Imperfect Tool

If given the option to expand my already-lengthy article, “The Rattlesnake and the Hibernaculum,” which appeared in the January 2021 William & Mary Quarterly—well, I would probably decline for fear of losing my reader in its serpentine folds. If forced to expand my essay, on the other hand, I would have probed yet one more… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By Benjamin Bankhurst & Kyle Roberts February 24, 2021

Report from a 2019 Digital Collections Fellowship recipient

Students collaborate on the Maryland Loyalism Project. Read More

digital projects 8 min read

By Josh Piker January 20, 2021

Updates from the WMQ

It will likely come as no surprise to learn that I spend way too much time worrying about authorial voice. For an editor, that’s very on-brand. I only raise the issue because I’ve been worrying, in particular, about my authorial voice on this blog. I’ve got two go-to voices for blog posts, neither of which seems right for this… Read More

WMQ 12 min read

By Karin Wulf January 13, 2021

What's New in This New Year

How the OI Plans to Support You in 2021, Vast Early America Welcome to 2021, a year like every other in which we know that the early American past we learn, listen, read, research, speak, teach, view, and write will be incredibly important. And yet, like the year that’s just ended, that importance seems turbo-charged for 2021. We know… Read More

News/Announcements 5 min read

By Hannah Farber November 24, 2020

Defining the project

When I help graduate students prepare applications for fellowships and jobs, we sometimes talk about the phrase “my project.” What does this phrase actually mean? Ph. D. students usually use it, reflexively, to mean “my dissertation.” Book writers often use it to mean “my book.” I prefer to think about a “project” as a bundle of interrelated questions that… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Asheesh Siddique November 17, 2020

An argument over seven years in the making

In 2013, while I was a PhD candidate making my first foray into research on a dissertation about administrative knowledge practices in the early modern British empire, I stumbled across a curious and cryptic set of notes in an obscure file at the UK National Archives at Kew Gardens. The file, TNA, CO 318/2, is ambiguously titled in the… Read More

WMQ 11 min read

By Catherine E. Kelly October 19, 2020

Not Your Typical Book Talks

This week, we will launch the first of three online OI Author Conversations scheduled for the current academic year. Featuring scholars whose books are forthcoming or recently published, this series will open up the research, writing, and thinking that go into making a polished product. Unlike even the best book talks, which tend to summarize central arguments and drive… Read More

books 4 min read

Uncommon Sense

Time to reset your syllabi, Vast Early America

Situating a Forum in the WMQ

Writing Time

Digital History Publishing and You. Yes You.

TJ takes on Buffon

Science for the History of Science: An Imperfect Tool

Report from a 2019 Digital Collections Fellowship recipient

Updates from the WMQ

What's New in This New Year

Defining the project

An argument over seven years in the making

Not Your Typical Book Talks

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Uncommon Sense

Time to reset your syllabi, Vast Early America

Situating a Forum in the WMQ

Writing Time

Digital History Publishing and You. Yes You.

TJ takes on Buffon

Science for the History of Science: An Imperfect Tool

Report from a 2019 Digital Collections Fellowship recipient

Updates from the WMQ

What's New in This New Year

Defining the project

An argument over seven years in the making

Not Your Typical Book Talks

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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