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By Holly White October 06, 2020

Elections in Early America Podcast Series Releases TODAY!

Every year, the United States holds elections. Often these elections are for city, town, and state offices. Every two years, the United States holds federal elections, where the American people elect those who will represent and serve them in their national government. How did elections in the United States develop? Who is American democracy for and who gets to… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 3 min read

By Holly White October 06, 2020

Reading on Elections in Vast Early America

Want to learn more about elections and voting in early America? We’ve compiled a list of suggested books, articles, and online resources that you might find helpful. We either used these works ourselves for production research or they were suggested by our guests. Happy researching! Books Richard R. Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America Christopher M. Read More

Ben Franklin's World 6 min read

By Charlie Kreh September 23, 2020

A changing portrait: seeing the "Mad King" thru decades of newspapers

by Charlie Kreh Charlie Kreh (W&M Class of 2021) is a History major. He plans to pursue a degree in law after he completes his BA. When I first learned of the Omohundro Institute (OI) and the accomplished scholars who work there, I knew I wanted to participate in any capacity I could. With the help of my advisor,… Read More

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By Karin Wulf September 14, 2020

Change, COVID-Accelerated.

By Karin Wulf For the last years the OI team—staff, Board, and Council, with feedback from the community—has been thinking about how to serve ever wider public and scholarly communities. We have expanded short-term and longer-term fellowship offerings through partnerships. We have expanded opportunities for students and early career scholars in particular to share their research. And we have… Read More

News/Announcements 5 min read

By Janine Yorimoto Boldt August 31, 2020

Jack Custis, Race, and the Unseen in Colonial Virginia Portraits

by Janine Yorimoto Boldt One painfully obvious fact as one scrolls through Colonial Virginia Portraits is that the faces are overwhelmingly white. Colonial Virginia Portraits includes more than 500 recorded portraits of which approximately 95 are documented but no longer extant. Only four of the total represent a non-white person. Three of these feature unnamed individuals who are… Read More

digital projects 13 min read

By Ann M. Little August 05, 2020

“A Good Receipt for the Womb:” Lady Augusta Murray’s Book of Cures

By Ann M. Little, Colorado State University Professor Little was awarded an Omohundro Institute—– Georgian Papers Programme fellowship in 2016 and conducted research in the archives at Windsor Castle in summer 2017. Applications for the fall 2020 round of Georgian Papers Programme fellowships will be posted on the OI website later in August. Amidst our twenty-first century… Read More

Georgian Papers Programme 25 min read

By Joshua Piker and Karin Wulf July 23, 2020

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

By Joshua Piker and Karin Wulf If Early American history had a traditional newspaper a number of events over the last months would have produced top-of-the-fold, all-caps headlines about Native American and Indigenous Studies. One of these was the April publication of an exchange in the American Historical Review entitled “Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies.” Begun… Read More

NAIS 15 min read

By Liz Covart July 08, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Remote Interviews

By Liz Covart How can you record remote guests and phone calls? These were two questions people sent my way on Twitter when I asked what questions people had about mics, lighting, and sound for their virtual programs and courses. In this last post of our three-post series on the subject of… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 11 min read

By Liz Covart July 07, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Video

By Liz Covart I’ve seen a lot of questions about mics, lighting, and sound floating around on Twitter as more museums and institutions move their public programming online and as educators move their teaching online. Many people want to know how they can record the best audio and video for their projects. Today’s post is the second in a… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 10 min read

By Liz Covart July 06, 2020

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Sound

By Liz Covart The coronavirus pandemic has forced the world to adapt from in-person activities, such as work and school, to at-home activities. With many museums and institutions moving their public programming online and educators moving their teaching online, I’ve seen a lot of questions about mics, lighting, and sound floating around on Twitter. These are areas I know… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 13 min read

By Holly White July 02, 2020

The Many Meanings of the Fourth of July

Declaration of Independence, Dunlap Broadside (1776) Over the past few years, we’ve steadily grown our collection of readings related to U.S. Independence Day as well as Ben Franklin’s World episodes detailing the early American history of the Fourth of July. It’s time we put it all in one place. Frederick Douglass famously questioned Americans in 1852, “What to… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 5 min read

By Derrick R. Spires June 30, 2020

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

Frontispiece. Walker’s Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life by Henry Highland Garnet and also Garnet’s Address to the Slaves of the United States of America. (New York: J.H. Tobitt, 1848). Library of Congress. By Derrick R. Spires For Black citizens of the early United States, the Fourth of… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 23 min read

Uncommon Sense

Elections in Early America Podcast Series Releases TODAY!

Reading on Elections in Vast Early America

A changing portrait: seeing the "Mad King" thru decades of newspapers

Change, COVID-Accelerated.

Jack Custis, Race, and the Unseen in Colonial Virginia Portraits

“A Good Receipt for the Womb:” Lady Augusta Murray’s Book of Cures

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Remote Interviews

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Video

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Sound

The Many Meanings of the Fourth of July

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

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Uncommon Sense

Elections in Early America Podcast Series Releases TODAY!

Reading on Elections in Vast Early America

A changing portrait: seeing the "Mad King" thru decades of newspapers

Change, COVID-Accelerated.

Jack Custis, Race, and the Unseen in Colonial Virginia Portraits

“A Good Receipt for the Womb:” Lady Augusta Murray’s Book of Cures

NAIS is Central to Early American Scholarship

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Remote Interviews

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Video

Tips and Tricks for Recording: Sound

The Many Meanings of the Fourth of July

Dreams of a Revolution Deferred

Recent Posts

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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

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