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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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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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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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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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

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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

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