#VastEarlyAmerica Archives - Page 4 of 4

By oieahc 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 oieahc November 02, 2016

The Notes You Don’t Play

Some Reflections on Vastness and the Word Count by Samuel Fisher, WMQ author (October 2016) I suppose it’s safe to say that the vastness of early America is a bit of a preoccupation in these parts. Big, expansive frameworks are the norm now; that much we know. The hard part comes when we try to actually put them to… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By oieahc 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 Martha Howard October 12, 2016

Summing up 3 days of discussion on slavery

The “Region and Nation in American Histories of Race and Slavery” conference took place at Mount Vernon, Virginia, this past weekend (October 6-9, 2016) before a crowd of over 125 people. With over three days of panels and papers as stimulation, the discussions were intense, long, and fruitful. Here a tiny smattering of the 1000+ tweets (#SlaveryMV) tells the… Read More

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By oieahc August 24, 2016

Hogshead Revisited: a short-term fellowship report from Melissa Morris

In today’s post, Omohundro Institute short-term fellow Melissa Morris (Columbia University), details how she used her time in Williamsburg and what she found out about the tobacco industry in early America. by Melissa Morris A hogshead. Photo taken by Melissa Morris in Colonial Williamsburg. For the last two months I have researched my… Read More

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By oieahc May 25, 2016

Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’

Washington DC and the University of Maryland, 2–5 June, 2016 Traduttore, traitore; translatio studii; translatio imperii. The matter of translation is central to the study of the histories, literatures, and cultures of the early Americas, where speakers of indigenous, Indo-European, African, and Asian languages negotiated what words meant and who had the power to wield them. From nuanced accommodations… Read More

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By oieahc May 03, 2016

“Coming Home”

Fissiparous. Centrifugal. Pluralization. A-synthetic. Comes to find that when I blog about #vastearlyamerica, my inbox fills up with fifty-cent words. Each of those words captures potential consequences of the expansive nature of our field. Fragmentation, dispersal, diversity, scale, incoherence. I’ve been hearing a lot about these topics since “Getting Lost?” was posted a few months… Read More

WMQ 9 min read

By oieahc March 29, 2016

Discoverability, Edwardian Style

Today, Karin Wulf kicks off a new feature on the Omohundro Institute’s Uncommon Sense blog. #vastEAsources will feature early American historians talking about the place of archival work in their own research and about the little-used or under-publicized archives they love. If you are working with an archive you would like to discuss with the wider EA community then consider… Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 11 min read

By oieahc February 22, 2016

#VastEarlyAmerica and Origins Stories: WMQ 1:1

Last month I wrote about the extraordinary range of subjects, chronologies and geographies encompassed in the field of early American scholarship. As the OI’s support for and investment in interdisciplinary work, and gatherings such as last year’s joint annual conference with the Society of Early Americanists suggest, we should add methods and theoretical approaches to… Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 10 min read

By Josh Piker January 21, 2016

Getting Lost

Is the WMQ really in danger of “losing its way” as Gordon Wood says it is? Josh Piker looks at just what we mean when we talk about #VastEarlyAmerica and responds to that charge. Karin’s yearlong tour through #VastEarlyAmerica will be fascinating to follow, and I am very much looking forward to the conversations that ensue. With those dialogues and debates… Read More

WMQ 15 min read

By oieahc January 04, 2016

For 2016, Appreciating #VastEarlyAmerica

Karin Wulf begins 2016 with a call to look at and look for #VastEarlyAmerica. Join in the search! Read More

#VastEarlyAmerica 5 min read

Jamestown, Peru?

The Notes You Don’t Play

My First Issue

Summing up 3 days of discussion on slavery

Hogshead Revisited: a short-term fellowship report from Melissa Morris

Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’

“Coming Home”

Discoverability, Edwardian Style

#VastEarlyAmerica and Origins Stories: WMQ 1:1

Getting Lost

For 2016, Appreciating #VastEarlyAmerica

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Jamestown, Peru?

The Notes You Don’t Play

My First Issue

Summing up 3 days of discussion on slavery

Hogshead Revisited: a short-term fellowship report from Melissa Morris

Translation and Transmission in the Early Americas: The Fourth Early Americanist ‘Summit’

“Coming Home”

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