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By oieahc January 24, 2018

Meghan Markle and the Long History of American Brides of Color in Britain

This post, by OI author Daniel Livesay, comes to us courtesy of the UNC Press blog. Daniel Livesay is the author of Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833, published with our friends at the University of North Carolina Press. By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from… Read More

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By oieahc January 24, 2018

Seats at the Table

The spring semester of the Omohundro Institute Colloquia series began last night with a presentation by Richard Godbeer of Virginia Commonwealth University. Four more colloqs will follow in the next few months. Here, W&M Ph.D. candidates Kristen Beales and Peter Olsen-Harbich share their takes on what value attending the sessions even though only postdoctoral work is presented. The… Read More

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By oieahc January 09, 2018

Welcome Catherine E. Kelly, Editor of Books.

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture is delighted to announce that Catherine E. Kelly begins this month as our Editor of Books. Her appointment brings the OI’s books program into an exciting new era. Its deep traditions and reputation for excellent scholarship are a vital foundation for the innovations we seek to foster and support. Read More

books 5 min read

By oieahc November 08, 2017

To the Revolution with the WMQ & JER

by Joshua Piker, Editor, William and Mary Quarterly October’s issue of the Quarterly went into the mail about two weeks ago and up on the OI Reader, Muse, and JSTOR soon thereafter. When you open your preferred format, you’ll see that we’ve published a joint issue with the Journal of the Early Republic around the theme of “Writing To and… Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By oieahc September 06, 2017

Framing Early American Scholarship

In today’s post, Jeffrey Glover, author of “Witnessing African War: Slavery, the Laws of War, and Anglo-American Abolitionism” in the July 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly, reflects on what it means to frame an article. By Jeffrey Glover I was surprised by the readers’ and editor’s reports on my submission to William and Mary Quarterly. I was not… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By oieahc August 30, 2017

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Today’s post comes from Matthew Kruer, author of “Bloody Minds and Peoples Undone: Emotion, Family, and Political Order in the Susquehannock–Virginia War” in the July issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. by Matthew Kruer Early Americanists are thinking big these days. When, in early 2016, Karin Wulf introduced[1] the twitter hashtag #VastEarlyAmerica and Josh Piker advocated… Read More

WMQ 5 min read

By oieahc August 23, 2017

Money matters

Today’s post is from Katherine Smoak, author of “The Weight of Necessity: Counterfeit Coins in the British Atlantic World, 1760-1800” (William and Mary Quarterly, July 2017). by Katherine Smoak When I started the research for the larger project from which my recent WMQ article is drawn—a history of the practices and politics of counterfeiting in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world—I… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By oieahc May 10, 2017

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Today’s post is a reprint from yesterday’s edition of The Scholarly Kitchen. In it, Karin Wulf reviews the Very Short Introduction to Intellectual Property by Siva Vaidhyanathan (Oxford University Press). by Karin Wulf Intellectual property is the culmination of brain work: ideas made manifest are legally defined and protected to variously advance the interests of their creators and the… Read More

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By oieahc March 15, 2017

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Associate Editor Nadine Zimmerli lays bare a usually private OI ritual, in the process asking what's the thing about things? Read More

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By oieahc March 01, 2017

Figuring Out Who Was in the Room Where it Happened; Or, Doing African American History with Quaker Sources

Today's post is by Nicholas P. Wood, author of “A ‘Class of Citizens’: The Earliest Black Petitioners to Congress and Their Quaker Allies” in the January 2017 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By oieahc February 22, 2017

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Today's post is by Adrian Chastain Weimer, author of “Elizabeth Hooton and the Lived Politics of Toleration in Massachusetts Bay” in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. Read More

WMQ 6 min read

By oieahc February 15, 2017

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

by Edward E. Andrews, Associate Professor of History at Providence College and author of “Tranquebar: Charting the Protestant International in the British Atlantic and Beyond” in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly Read More

WMQ 7 min read

Meghan Markle and the Long History of American Brides of Color in Britain

Seats at the Table

Welcome Catherine E. Kelly, Editor of Books.

To the Revolution with the WMQ & JER

Framing Early American Scholarship

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Money matters

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Figuring Out Who Was in the Room Where it Happened; Or, Doing African American History with Quaker Sources

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

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Meghan Markle and the Long History of American Brides of Color in Britain

Seats at the Table

Welcome Catherine E. Kelly, Editor of Books.

To the Revolution with the WMQ & JER

Framing Early American Scholarship

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Money matters

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Figuring Out Who Was in the Room Where it Happened; Or, Doing African American History with Quaker Sources

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

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

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Noel Edward Smyth

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