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By Editor January 11, 2024

"Colonial Anarchy, Indigenous Power" - a lecture by Matthew Kruer

Join us for the 2023-2024 William and Mary Quarterly Lecture by Matthew Kruer (University of Chicago) at 5:00 pm ET on February 6, 2024 in William & Mary’s Blow Hall, room 334. The lecture is titled “Colonial Anarchy, Indigenous Power: ‘Bacon’s Rebellion’ and the Susquehannock Nation.” Reservations are not necessary and seating will be first-come, first-served. Kruer will reexamine… Read More

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By Editor July 27, 2023

WMQ-EMSI Workshop, "Money in Vast Early America"

The WMQ-EMSI Workshop Series is designed to identify and encourage new trends in our understanding of the history and culture of early North America. It fosters intellectual exchange among scholars working on thematically related topics that may be chronologically, geographically, or methodologically diverse. The participants are primarily mature scholars working on second or subsequent book projects; they share their works… Read More

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By OI December 01, 2022

WMQ-HAHR Workshop

This event is by invitation only. For more information, contact oieahc@wm.edu. Friday March 26: Part I of Workshop 8:30-8:40 Welcome, Opening Remarks from Josh Piker and Martha Few 8:45-9:30 Session 1: Margaret Newell — “’The Rising of the Indians’; Or, the Indians’ Revolution of [16]’76” Respondent: Laura Matthew 9:30-9:45 Break 9:45-10:30 Session 2 Matthew… Read More

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By OI December 01, 2022

WMQ-HAHR Workshop

This event is by invitation only. For more information, contact oieahc@wm.edu. Friday March 26: Part I of Workshop 8:30-8:40 Welcome, Opening Remarks from Josh Piker and Martha Few 8:45-9:30 Session 1: Margaret Newell — “’The Rising of the Indians’; Or, the Indians’ Revolution of [16]’76” Respondent: Laura Matthew 9:30-9:45 Break 9:45-10:30 Session 2 Matthew… Read More

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By OI December 01, 2022

Workshop: Institute & Society Publishing in the 2020s

Institute and society publishing in the 2020s: what can historians do for themselves? A joint event from the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and the Omohundro Institute. With additional contributions from the American Historical Association, African American Intellectual History Society, and Sussex Humanities Lab.  … Read More

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By Catherine E. Kelly September 27, 2022

Change and Continuity

by Catherine E. Kelly Historians are notorious for sussing out the relationship between change and continuity, trying to gauge which is predominant at any given moment. In fact, both are typically in play. Certainly, that’s the case with new transitions for the OI’s staff.  From one perspective, we have change, and an awful lot of it: my move into… Read More

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By Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri June 08, 2021

Situating a Forum in the WMQ

By Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri convened the forum “Situating the United States in Vast Early America” in the April 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. When Martha Howard invited us to write a piece about our recent forum, “Situating the United States in Vast Early America,” saying yes was easy.  Deciding… Read More

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By Josh Piker March 22, 2021

Digital History Publishing and You. Yes You.

The OI reader is a powerful tool for doing the sort of work that early Americanists do. Why not think about taking it for a spin? Read More

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By Whitney Barlow Robles March 03, 2021

Science for the History of Science: An Imperfect Tool

By Whitney Barlow Robles If given the option to expand my already-lengthy article, “The Rattlesnake and the Hibernaculum,” which appeared in the January 2021 William & Mary Quarterly—well, I would probably decline for fear of losing my reader in its serpentine folds. If forced to expand my essay, on the other hand, I would have… Read More

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By Josh Piker January 20, 2021

Updates from the WMQ

By Joshua Piker, Editor It will likely come as no surprise to learn that I spend way too much time worrying about authorial voice.  For an editor, that’s very on-brand.  I only raise the issue because I’ve been worrying, in particular, about my authorial voice on this blog.  I’ve got two go-to voices for blog posts, neither of which… Read More

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By Hannah Farber November 24, 2020

Defining the project

By Hannah Farber When I help graduate students prepare applications for fellowships and jobs, we sometimes talk about the phrase “my project.” What does this phrase actually mean? Ph. D. students usually use it, reflexively, to mean “my dissertation.” Book writers often use it to mean “my book.” I prefer to think about a “project” as a bundle of… Read More

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By Asheesh Siddique November 17, 2020

An argument over seven years in the making

By Asheesh Siddique In 2013, while I was a PhD candidate making my first foray into research on a dissertation about administrative knowledge practices in the early modern British empire, I stumbled across a curious and cryptic set of notes in an obscure file at the UK National Archives at Kew Gardens. The file, TNA, CO 318/2, is ambiguously… Read More

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