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By Matthew Kruer 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. Early Americanists are thinking big these days. When, in early 2016, Karin Wulf introduced[1] the twitter hashtag #VastEarlyAmerica and Josh Piker advocated[2] that “early… Read More

WMQ 5 min read

By Tim Shannon August 03, 2017

It started with a simple question

Today's post is from Tim Shannon, whose article “A ‘wicked commerce’: Consent, Coercion, and Kidnapping in Aberdeen’s Servant Trade” appears in the July 2017 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By Karin Wulf July 12, 2017

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

The 2017 Scholars’ Workshop has convened in Williamsburg. Thanks to the Lapidus Initiative, six scholars are braving the heat to work on book and article projects with the OI’s editorial staff. Zack Dorner is a lecturer in history at Stanford University. He is working on a chapter from his book project on the globalization of British medicines in… Read More

fellowships 5 min read

By James Rice May 24, 2017

What if They Gave an Environmental History Workshop and no Environmental Historians Came?

Today's post is by James Rice, Tufts University, Convener of the most recent William and Mary Quarterly—Early Modern Studies Institute (WMQ-EMSI) workshop, “Early American Environmental Histories,” which took place at The Huntington Library, May 19–20. A list of participants and their papers follows his post. Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By Josh Piker May 03, 2017

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

This post by the WMQ's Josh Piker originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen, a blog about "What's Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing." Read More

WMQ 19 min read

By Adrian Chastain Weimer 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 Edward E. Andrews 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

By Benjamin L. Carp February 01, 2017

Homesick for the Quarterly

Publishing in this issue of the William and Mary Quarterly felt like a homecoming for me. When John Demos taught “The Social History of the American Revolution” during my junior year, he assigned Alfred F. Young’s award-winning 1981 article on the shoemaker George Robert Twelves Hewes. Young included a few lines about Hewes’s apparent lack of civic engagement… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By Josh Piker December 02, 2016

R/O?

Today’s post is from Josh Piker, Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. There are certain little things about the Quarterly that I will never be able to change. Some of those—like the journal’s cover—I wouldn’t change if I could. Of course, Karin Wulf has made it very clear that, forced to choose between the journal’s cover and its Editor,… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By Christopher Heaney November 09, 2016

Jamestown, Peru?

Today’s post comes from Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor, Penn State, 2016-2018 Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and WMQ author (October). “Do we really need a ‘Peruvian Atlantic’ … ?” asked Reader B. For the sake of my argument, I couldn’t help but agree. The original subtitle of what became my essay in this fall’s issue of the… Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 9 min read

By Josh Piker October 19, 2016

My First Issue

I have been Editor for over two years, and I’ve yet to publish my first issue. I don’t like to rush into things. April 2016’s issue has been out for over five months now, but that wasn’t my first issue. For those of you in the northern hemisphere, July 2016’s issue arrived in your mailbox just as the heady… Read More

WMQ 12 min read

By Keith Pluymers August 03, 2016

An old topic made new--iron in America

In this week’s post, Keith Pluymers (July 2016) describes the shifts in perspective that led him to reconsider a well-worn topic and ultimately to publish his first piece in the William and Mary Quarterly. by Keith Pluymers In 2013 while on a Mellon Research Fellowship at the Virginia Historical Society, a combination of archival discovery and a fortuitous meeting with a… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

It started with a simple question

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

What if They Gave an Environmental History Workshop and no Environmental Historians Came?

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

Homesick for the Quarterly

R/O?

Jamestown, Peru?

My First Issue

An old topic made new--iron in America

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

It started with a simple question

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

What if They Gave an Environmental History Workshop and no Environmental Historians Came?

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

Homesick for the Quarterly

R/O?

Jamestown, Peru?

My First Issue

An old topic made new--iron in America

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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