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By Daniel Livesay 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 04, 2016

For 2016, Appreciating #VastEarlyAmerica

Karin Wulf begins 2016 with a call to look at and look for #VastEarlyAmerica. Join in the search! Read More

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By Joseph M. Adelman September 22, 2015

A Social Media Brouhaha: Talking about Blogging in Chicago

Today we continue our series with a review of the roundtable on "The Maturing Blogosphere of Early America." You may have heard that there was some amount of controversy about social media during the OI-SEA meeting in Chicago this past June. But almost all of that happened after the roundtable session, so we'll get to that in a minute. Read More

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By Joseph M. Adelman June 10, 2015

Reflections on the Octo

The Octo is now about six months old, which makes the timing right for some reflection on just what the project now looks like and what I’ve learned about the early American blogosphere. It began with a simple goal: create a space where the Institute can bring together some of the best online work… Read More

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