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By Editor September 19, 2025

"Revolutionary Orbits, Revolutionary Arcs"

Revolutionary Orbits, Revolutionary Arcs The 29th Omohundro Institute annual conference will take place at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, from Thursday, June 11, through Saturday, June 13, 2026. The program committee, co-chaired by Christian Ayne Crouch (Bard College) and Jessica Choppin Roney (Temple University and the Library Company of Philadelphia), invites papers on all topics in vast early American… Read More

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By OI December 01, 2022

Fighting for Their Places: Race and Settlement in the Early Republic

Join us for an OI Author Conversation with Samantha Seeley and Michael Witgen. Westward expansion is a central theme in the history of the United States. But the movement of people across the continent, forced and voluntary, was more complicated and more fraught than popular narratives suggest. Indigenous peoples in the Old Northwest struggled to retain their homelands… Read More

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"Revolutionary Orbits, Revolutionary Arcs"

Fighting for Their Places: Race and Settlement in the Early Republic

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"Revolutionary Orbits, Revolutionary Arcs"

Fighting for Their Places: Race and Settlement in the Early Republic

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Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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