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By Matthew Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz August 08, 2018

Short answer: what to do with 5,000 more words

Today’s post, by July 2018 WMQ authors Matthew Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz, authors of “Nature’s Battalions,” comes in response to the following question: “WMQ articles are capped at 10,000 words (plus notes). If you had 5,000 more words to play with, how would the article be different?” by Matthew Mulcahy and Stuart Schwartz Our article “Nature’s Battalions” was born out of our… Read More

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By oieahc July 25, 2018

Meet the 2018 Scholars' Workshop

The 2018 Scholars’ Workshop convened at the Omohundro Institute on July 2. Each summer up to eight untenured scholars gather for two weeks to work both as a group and individually with OI editors and staff on either a manuscript chapter or a journal article in progress. The weeks include seminar-style meetings on conceptual development, manuscript editing, and source… Read More

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By Alejandra Dubcovsky May 23, 2018

Thoughts on writing for the WMQ-EAL forum

Today’s post is by Alejandra Dubcovsky, author of “Defying Indian Slavery: Apalachee Voices and Spanish Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast” in the April 2018 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. The April issue is part of a forum, “Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies” published in collaboration with Early American Literature.  I thought doing a forum would… Read More

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By Christine DeLucia March 22, 2018

On "slow history": Decolonizing methodologies and the importance of responsive editorial processes

Christine DeLucia, author of “Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country: Indigenous Material Culture and Early American History Making at Ezra Stiles’s Yale Museum” in the January 2018 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly  reflects on the broader implications of making a “simple” change to her recent article. It wasn’t quite a “stop the presses!” moment.  But a… Read More

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By Katherine Carté Engel February 28, 2018

Politics, Religion, Then, Now

WMQ author Katherine Carté Engel (January 2018) discusses some of the questions the editorial process forced her to confront when writing her article “Connecting Protestants in Britain’s Eighteenth-century Atlantic Empire.” According to the handy new tool put up by Michael McDonnell, the word “colonial” appears 138 times in titles in the WMQ. I’m not surprised that the number… Read More

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By David Chan Smith February 22, 2018

On Fit and Frame

Today’s post is by David Chan Smith, author of “The Hudson’s Bay Company, Social Legitimacy, and the Political Economy of Eighteenth-Century Empire” in the January 2018 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly.  The six reviewers! This was my first thought when asked how my article on the political economy of empire had changed from its initial submission… 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

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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

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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

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By Nicholas P. Wood 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

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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

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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

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