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By Molly O’Hagan Hardy September 18, 2019

A symposium on digitizing #VastEarlyAmerica

by Molly O’Hagan Hardy Next week, The Omohundro Institute will host a group of scholars working in special collections, academia, and grant funding agencies to discuss the past, present, and future of the digitization of the vast early American record. Specifically, the group will focus on the  Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowships, an effort the… Read More

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By Jessica M. Parr June 06, 2019

Data Management for #VastEarlyAmerica

Join Jessica M. Parr for the 2019 THis Camp, “Digital Management for Historians: a system for keeping track of data including syllabi, projects, and research” on Thursday, June 13, 2:00 pm, at the 25th annual OI conference at the University of Pittsburgh.  by Jessica M. Parr, Simmons University Like so many things these… Read More

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By Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami May 31, 2019

Origins of a collaboration

by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami The authors of “Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu’s Arabic Address on the Occasion of Emancipation in Jamaica” (William and Mary Quarterly, April 2019) discuss how they came to collaborate on the piece. Beth: Our collaborative journey began with an unexpected find. I’d traveled to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast to read Sir… Read More

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By Julie A. Fisher March 21, 2019

Accessing the Past: Why Paleography Skills Still Matter

Learn more about paleography at our first Transcribathon on Saturday, March 23, 2019, in the Ford Classroom, ground floor of Swem Library, on the campus of William & Mary. We will begin at 11:00 a.m. and continue until 4:00 p.m. Participants are welcome to drop in for an hour or to stay all afternoon. Lunch and snacks will be available. Julie Fisher will lead… Read More

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By Andrew Newman February 20, 2019

Digital Sources, Analog Citations

Today’s post is by Andrew Newman, author of Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities, published in January 2019 by the Omohundro Institute with our partners at the University of North Carolina Press. It is available in paperback. by Andrew Newman The image on the right is a copper engraving from a 1725 Amsterdam edition of François de… Read More

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By Peter Olsen-Harbich January 30, 2019

The Sandy Ground of Prince Edward: Profligacy and Royal Credit in the Empire of George III

Peter Olsen-Harbich spent the September of 2018 in the Royal Archives at Windsor as an Omohundro Institute–Georgian Papers Programme fellow and as the recipient of a William & Mary Dean’s Research Fund fellowship. The latter was jointly funded by the Omohundro Institute and the William & Mary Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences via the William &… Read More

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By Allison Bigelow January 09, 2019

Teaching Colonial Translations Through Archives

Today’s post is courtesy of Allison Bigelow (University of Virginia), 2012-2014 OI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellow. It appears in issue 14 of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. The post is based in part on work Professor Bigelow did while completing her fellowship at the Omohundro Institute and teaching at William & Mary. From “Teaching Colonial Translations Through… Read More

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By oieahc July 06, 2018

Lester J. Cappon and the history of the OI

July 6, 2018 As Ben Franklin’s World fans already know, a special additional episode of the show downloaded today just for subscribers. In this special episode, the history of the Omohundro Institute is brought to life through a look at the work of former OI Director and William and Mary Quarterly Editor Lester J. Cappon. (You can still… Read More

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By Karin Wulf June 20, 2018

Critical Archives Plenary at #OIAnnual2018: The Afterlife of Conferences

The Omohundro Institute thanks the many scholars who made #OIAnnual2018 such a success. If you have a blog post, bibliography, or other materials related to the conference that you would like to share please contact Martha Howard. by Karin Wulf The OI’s 24th annual conference this past weekend, in honor of our 75th anniversary, will… Read More

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By Laurel Daen April 18, 2018

From the OI Archives: Our Copper and Wood Printing Blocks, part IV

This is the fourth and final in a series of posts by Laurel Daen on the history of the copper and wood printing block process used to produce the William and Mary Quarterly until the mid-twentieth century. Laurel wrote the pieces in preparation for the OI’s 75th anniversary while she was Lapidus Initiative Communications Coordinator in 2016. by Laurel Daen A… Read More

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By Laurel Daen April 04, 2018

From the OI Archives: Our Copper and Wood Printing Blocks, part III

This is the third piece in a series of posts by Laurel Daen on the history of the copper and wood printing block process used to produce the William and Mary Quarterly until the mid-twentieth century. Laurel wrote the pieces in preparation for the OI’s 75th anniversary while she was Lapidus Initiative Communications Coordinator in 2016. by Laurel Daen The Royal… Read More

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By Karin Wulf March 08, 2018

Remarks from "Private Funding in the Humanities," AHA session #289

The following is a transcript of remarks given by Sid Lapidus during session #289, “Private Funding in the Humanities,” at the January 2018 American Historical Association meeting in Washington, D.C. Introduction by Karin Wulf At the January 2018 meeting of the American Historical Association, I chaired a session, put together by the program committee, on the vital subject of… Read More

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