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By Karin Wulf March 17, 2020

The New York Times 1619 Project and the Omohundro Institute

By Karin Wulf The 1619 Project continues to attract a lot of readers and responses. On March 6 the editor of the New York Times Magazine, Jake Silverstein, and the principal author of the New York Times 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, convened scholars at the Times Center for a conversation centered on one of the issues that has been most provocative: slavery and American Revolution. I… Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 11 min read

By Karin Wulf March 12, 2020

Caring for the OI Community

An update from Karin Wulf, Executive Director of the OI, regarding COVID-19. Read More

News/Announcements 4 min read

By Nancy Siegel March 05, 2020

Curious Taste: The Transatlantic Appeal of Satire

By Nancy SiegelProfessor of Art History and Culinary HistoryTowson University Queen Charlotte frying sprats, George III toasting muffins or placing a fleet of ships in an oven about to be baked like gingerbread, the Prince of Wales gorging himself on the fortunes of Empire, William Pitt carving plum pudding with Napoleon, the American colonies represented as a… Read More

fellowshipsGeorgian Papers Programme 21 min read

By Gautham Rao February 21, 2020

From Hallway Conversation to the WMQ

By Gautham Rao This article was the result of a moment of enormous luck. I can remember exactly where I was when it happened: Saturday, April 11, 2015, in the lobby of the Massachusetts Historical Society, somewhere between 10:30 and 10:45 in the morning, in between sessions at the wonderful… Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By Matthew Dziennik February 20, 2020

Refugees of the American Revolution … and George Orwell

By Matthew Dziennik “New York’s Refugees and Political Authority in Revolutionary America,” WMQ (Jan. 2020) began with an intellectual humbling. It came at a brown bag at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where I was presenting on… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By Ali MacDonald February 04, 2020

You Just Had to Be There? Thoughts on Transcription, Inventories, and Materiality in Understanding Carlton House

By Ali MacDonald Last month I took a day out of my research trip to visit George IV: Art & Spectacle, currently on display at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace (Nov 15, 2019 – May 3, 2020). In a sense this exhibition seeks to rehabilitate our long-standing conception of George as a bad son, bad father, bad… Read More

Georgian Papers Programme 13 min read

By Josh Piker January 31, 2020

New and Improved

...The new version of the OI Reader will be accessible via your desktop computer as well as other devices and will allow us to create digital content more easily than before. It will also have a feature of particular use to all the Very Odd Ducks of #VastEarlyAmerica: accurate (and stable) citation information readily available for every word. Read More

WMQ 12 min read

By Colour Outside January 27, 2020

11th Annual Rio de la Plata Workshop Schedule (Revised)

Download the Schedule PDF NOTE: Due to inclement weather, please refer to the revised schedule below. Opening Lecture – Friday, February 21st, Tucker Hall, 127A – 10am 12:15pm Zacarias Moutoukias, Université Paris Diderot“Global as Micro: Social Networks, Interactions and Transactions in Colonial Spaces” Friday, February 21st… Read More

ScheduleUpcoming Conferences 3 min read

By oieahc January 23, 2020

VCEA Meeting 1/25/2020

We are delighted to announce that the Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists (VCEA) will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, January 25th, 2020. Our good friends at the University of Richmond will serve as our hosts for what promises to be another exciting day of conversation and scholarship. Please find below the program for this year’s meeting: 9:00am – 10:30am… Read More

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By Liz Covart December 16, 2019

Tea Party Playlist

by Liz Covart Courtesy American Antiquarian Society On November 29, 1773, a group of concerned Bostonians met in Boston’s Old South Meeting House to discuss how to deal with the ships just arrived from London laden with tea to be sold by the East India Company under the terms of Great Britain’s Tea Act. The act sought to accomplish three… Read More

Ben Franklin's World 9 min read

By oieahc December 13, 2019

Meet the OI apprentices

As the fall semester at W&M winds to a close, we at the Omohundro Institute are particularly grateful for the work of the OI Editorial Apprentices. The decades-long program introduces entering graduate students to the practices of scholarly publishing and historical editing. Each year, students participate in… Read More

apprentices 11 min read

By Janine Yorimoto Boldt November 19, 2019

When the Past Still Hangs in the Parlor

by Janine Yorimoto Boldt “My Will is that none of the Pictures of what Sort Soever be Removed out of my Dwelling Hall.” With those words, Henry Custis (ca. 1677-1733) of Northampton County, Virginia clearly stated his intention that the family portraits (and any other pictures) should remain with his house in perpetuity. Custis would be disappointed that neither… Read More

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Uncommon Sense

The New York Times 1619 Project and the Omohundro Institute

Caring for the OI Community

Curious Taste: The Transatlantic Appeal of Satire

From Hallway Conversation to the WMQ

Refugees of the American Revolution … and George Orwell

You Just Had to Be There? Thoughts on Transcription, Inventories, and Materiality in Understanding Carlton House

New and Improved

11th Annual Rio de la Plata Workshop Schedule (Revised)

VCEA Meeting 1/25/2020

Tea Party Playlist

Meet the OI apprentices

When the Past Still Hangs in the Parlor

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

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Uncommon Sense

The New York Times 1619 Project and the Omohundro Institute

Caring for the OI Community

Curious Taste: The Transatlantic Appeal of Satire

From Hallway Conversation to the WMQ

Refugees of the American Revolution … and George Orwell

You Just Had to Be There? Thoughts on Transcription, Inventories, and Materiality in Understanding Carlton House

New and Improved

11th Annual Rio de la Plata Workshop Schedule (Revised)

VCEA Meeting 1/25/2020

Tea Party Playlist

Meet the OI apprentices

When the Past Still Hangs in the Parlor

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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