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By Geoffrey Plank February 08, 2017

A fresh look at early Quaker history

Today’s post comes from Geoffrey Plank, professor of History at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. His article “Quakers as Political Players in Early America” appears in the January 2017 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. I have been studying early Quaker history, with increasing intensity, for more than fifteen years now. When Joshua Piker asked… Read More

WMQ 6 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 Gabriel Cervantes December 21, 2016

Clarifying the purposely obscure

Today’s post comes courtesy of Gabriel Cervantes, author of “Learning from Stephen Burroughs: Republication and the Making of a Literary Book in the Early United States” in the October 2016 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. by Gabriel Cervantes When I first started working on Stephen Burroughs’s Memoirs, I realized that the narrative uses poetry in clever ways. Read More

WMQ 7 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 Michael D. Breidenbach September 07, 2016

Beginning and Ending with Footnotes

In today’s post, WMQ author Michael D. Breidenbach (July 2016) reflects on the beginning and end of historical writing. by Michael D. Breidenbach An unavoidable task in historical writing is beginning and ending within particular time periods, dates, or moments. But while a published article denotes its end—the publication date—historical writing often does not admit of a beginning. The genesis of an… Read More

WMQ 5 min read

By Kirsten Fischer August 17, 2016

How I learned to stop worrying and love Reader D

by Kirsten Fischer In today’s post, WMQ author Kirsten Fischer (July 2016) delves into her relationship with Reader D and how their interaction ultimately influenced her piece. Powerful intellectual opposition to one’s ideas is a disturbing, provoking, and very useful thing. That’s what I learned from Reader D, the anonymous reviewer who went to great lengths to refute the arguments… Read More

WMQ 6 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

By Josh Piker July 14, 2016

Summertime Blues: A Retraction.

by Josh Piker There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that the evidence suggests that potential authors of William and Mary Quarterly articles read my posts and take seriously what I say there. The bad news is that, because of the good news, what I said in one particular post is no longer accurate. Last July,… Read More

WMQ 4 min read

By Josh Piker July 06, 2016

The Need for Speed

by WMQ Editor Josh Piker At the risk of invoking one of my many least favorite Tom Cruise movies—or, as a quick Google search informs me, what looks to be a more recent (but even more uninspired) movie based on a video game—I’d like to talk for a minute about the need for speed. Last year, I blogged about my… Read More

WMQ 13 min read

By Justin Roberts May 19, 2016

Familiar Sources and Forgotten Colonies

WMQ author Justin Roberts reflects on the unexpected route that led him to the article on British plantation management in Barbados that appears in the April issue. by Justin Roberts As I was writing my first book about British Atlantic plantation management in the late eighteenth century, I found myself burrowing back further in time with my research questions. As I… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

A fresh look at early Quaker history

Homesick for the Quarterly

Clarifying the purposely obscure

R/O?

Jamestown, Peru?

My First Issue

Beginning and Ending with Footnotes

How I learned to stop worrying and love Reader D

An old topic made new--iron in America

Summertime Blues: A Retraction.

The Need for Speed

Familiar Sources and Forgotten Colonies

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A fresh look at early Quaker history

Homesick for the Quarterly

Clarifying the purposely obscure

R/O?

Jamestown, Peru?

My First Issue

Beginning and Ending with Footnotes

How I learned to stop worrying and love Reader D

An old topic made new--iron in America

Summertime Blues: A Retraction.

The Need for Speed

Familiar Sources and Forgotten Colonies

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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