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By Editor February 12, 2026

A Lecture by Lauren Duval: The American Revolution told from inside the home

The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence NEW! We are delighted to announce that Lauren Duval has been awarded Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award for a First Book. A talk by Lauren Duval (University of Oklahoma) This is a look at the American Revolution from inside the home. Prior to… Read More

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By OI December 02, 2022

Vast Early America at the Washington History Seminar

Join OI author Robert G. Parkinson for an OI-sponsored session of the National History Center’s Washington History Seminar. Usually convened in person at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, the event will take place online. On December 20, 2021, a roundtable on Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence will take place with… Read More

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By OI December 01, 2022

"From New Cultures to a New Regime: Washington and Cuzco in the 1810s"

OI Colloquium with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal This paper comes from a chapter of a book-in-progress, a wide-angle cultural history of the age of revolutions, ca. 1760-1825. Interweaving the stories of cities in North and South America, it argues that a synchronous and inter-related set of cultural changes took place in multiple Atlantic regions around 1800–spanning sociability, urban space, and family… Read More

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By OI December 01, 2022

“The Evolution of Freedom: Free People of Color in the Revolutionary South”

OI Colloquium with Warren Milteer This paper explores the changes in the social and political situation of free people of color in the U.S. South as well as the colonies of Louisiana and Florida during the age of Revolutions. It investigates the explosion in manumissions across the U.S. South as well as the backlash to the growing numbers of… Read More

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