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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

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By Karin Wulf December 06, 2017

Hamilton’s George III in London

Hamilton, a quintessentially American story, has arrived in London. While many American commenters and historians have focused on the “Ten Dollar Founding Father without a Father” and his compatriots, the racial politics of the founding period and the intentional casting of the musical, and the gendered politics of the Schuyler sisters and the Reynolds Affair, with Hamilton in London… Read More

Georgian Papers Programme 11 min read

By Jeffrey Glover 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. I was surprised by the readers’ and editor’s reports on my submission to William and Mary Quarterly. I was not surprised by how… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

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 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

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By Karin Wulf June 30, 2017

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

Today is the end of our fiscal year, as anyone who has been getting and reading our encouragement to make a gift to the OI Associates knows. For non-profits, that end of the fiscal year is an important moment to take stock of our resources and to make firmer commitments for the coming year. We are immensely grateful to… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By Karin Wulf May 30, 2017

Listening and Learning: Welcoming Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World to the OI

We’ve got big news to share. Today we’re welcoming Liz Covart –and Ben Franklin’s World—to the OI full-time. Liz is our new Digital Projects Editor, with primary responsibility for the podcast and the many new platforms we’re exploring to highlight outstanding early American scholarship. In January of 2016 we announced a new partnership with Liz, a series called… Read More

Doing History 8 min read

By Karin Wulf 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). 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 public good. Intellectual… Read More

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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 Karin Wulf April 21, 2017

History and Institutional Memory

Exterior, Bruton Parish church It was a bright, hot, beautiful Virginia spring day when we paid our respects to Thad Tate (1924–2017) at Williamsburg’s Bruton Parish Church, his longtime congregation. As Director of the Omohundro Institute (1972–1989), and Editor and Book Review Editor of the William and Mary Quarterly before that, Thad’s formal association with… Read More

memorials 9 min read

By Karin Wulf March 29, 2017

Exciting News from the NEH

National Endowment for the Humanities programs have been incalculably important to the shared understanding of the early American past. We are delighted to announce two successful NEH applications in support of the Omohundro Institute’s programs this year. The OI was awarded grants both for our residential postdoctoral fellowship program and for the Georgian Papers Programme. The OI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship… Read More

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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

Welcome Catherine E. Kelly, Editor of Books.

Hamilton’s George III in London

Framing Early American Scholarship

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

Listening and Learning: Welcoming Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World to the OI

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

History and Institutional Memory

Exciting News from the NEH

Homesick for the Quarterly

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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Welcome Catherine E. Kelly, Editor of Books.

Hamilton’s George III in London

Framing Early American Scholarship

Emotional Subjects, Big and Small

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

Transitions at the OI: Au Revoir, Brett

Listening and Learning: Welcoming Liz Covart and Ben Franklin’s World to the OI

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

History and Institutional Memory

Exciting News from the NEH

Homesick for the Quarterly

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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