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By Editor February 18, 2026

OI Author Conversation with Paul Polgar & Ronald A. Johnson

Join us ONLINE on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, for “Teaching about Slavery & Emancipation in the Age of Revolutions” with Paul Polgar (Tufts University), author of Standard-Bearers of Equality: America’s First Abolition Movement” (Omohundro Institute with UNC Press, 2019—new in paper in 2025), and Ronald A. Johnson (Baylor University), author of Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy during the American Revolution (Cornell University… Read More

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By Karin Wulf July 01, 2021

Blue Sky for the Fourth of July

By Karin Wulf, Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute If there is a year for blue sky thinking—aspirational, bold, and collaborative—this is it. In five years the United States will mark the semi-quincentennial—the 250th anniversary—of its Declaration of Independence.  There will be fireworks, there will be speeches, and surely there will be hotdogs.  There will also be a host… Read More

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By Catherine E. Kelly June 30, 2021

Time to reset your syllabi, Vast Early America

By Catherine E. Kelly, OI Editor of Books I came to the project that would become Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence the hard way – through the college classroom. Before joining the Omohundro Institute, I taught American history first at Case Western Reserve University and then at the University of… Read More

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