“Revolutionary Connections” Oberg Workshop for Junior Scholars Nashville, TN, June 10, 2026. Convener: Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame) This workshop explores the nature of Atlantic connections and their role in eighteenth-century Revolutions. In what ways was the Atlantic world tied together over the course of the eighteenth century? How did… Read More
Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable gathering place for many and the “Just Write” sessions have been a regular part of each year’s iteration. In this Coffeehouse, host Katherine (Katy) Telling invites up to 15 participants to… Read More
Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable gathering place for many and the “Just Write” sessions have been a regular part of each year’s iteration. In this Coffeehouse, host Katherine (Katy) Telling invites up to 15 participants to… Read More
Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable gathering place for many and the “Just Write” sessions have been a regular part of each year’s iteration. In this Coffeehouse, host Katherine (Katy) Telling invites up to a dozen participants… Read More
Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable gathering place for many and the “Just Write” sessions have been a regular part of each year’s iteration. In this Coffeehouse, host Katherine (Katy) Telling invites up to a dozen participants to meet… Read More
Join the Omohundro Institute as we welcome OI author and former Council member Sara E. Johnson for the 10th annual Council Lecture. Professor Johnson (University of California, San Diego) will deliver “Communal Biography: Reflections on Centering Stories of the Enslaved.” Communal biography offers new ways to think about the past inside and outside of the archive. Moving between… Read More
Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable gathering place for many. Summer 2023 Tables Hosted by Misha Ewen Intimate Histories of Women, Slavery and Colonization in Vast Early America Tuesdays 10:00 am ET (7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15/, 8/22) This table will bring together… Read More
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by Nathaniel Millett Nathaniel Millett (St Louis University) is the author of “Law, Lineage, Gender, and the Lives of Enslaved Indigenous People on the Edge of the Nineteenth-century Caribbean” in the October 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. I remember vividly when I sat down and first created the Word document for my WMQ article, “Law,… Read More
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 interrelated questions that… Read More
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 titled in the… Read More
In this post, WMQ author M. Scott Heerman discusses what he would have done with a larger word limit for his article, “Abolishing Slavery in Motion: Foreign Captivity and International Abolitionism in the Early United States,” in the April 2020 issue. Through September 30, you can read this article for free on the OI Reader. We will close… Read More