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By Karin Wulf May 10, 2017

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Today’s post is a reprint from yesterday’s edition of The Scholarly Kitchen. In it, Karin Wulf reviews the Very Short Introduction to Intellectual Property by Siva Vaidhyanathan (Oxford University Press). by Karin Wulf Intellectual property is the culmination of brain work: ideas made manifest are legally defined and protected to variously advance the interests of their creators and the… Read More

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By Josh Piker May 03, 2017

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

WMQ 19 min read

By Nadine Zimmerli March 15, 2017

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Associate Editor Nadine Zimmerli lays bare a usually private OI ritual, in the process asking what's the thing about things? Read More

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By Adrian Chastain Weimer February 22, 2017

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

WMQ 6 min read

By Edward E. Andrews February 15, 2017

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

WMQ 7 min read

By Martha Howard February 01, 2017

Homesick for the Quarterly

by Benjamin L. Carp Publishing in this issue of the William and Mary Quarterly felt like a homecoming for me. When John Demos taught “The Social History of the American Revolution” during my junior year, he assigned Alfred F. Young’s award-winning 1981 article on the shoemaker George Robert Twelves Hewes. Young included a few lines about Hewes’s apparent… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By oieahc December 21, 2016

Clarifying the purposely obscure

Today’s post comes courtesy of Gabriel Cervantes, author of “Learning from Stephen Burroughs: Republication and the Making of a Literary Book in the Early United States” in the October 2016 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. by Gabriel Cervantes When I first started working on Stephen Burroughs’s Memoirs, I realized that the narrative uses poetry in clever ways. Read More

WMQ 7 min read

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 oieahc September 07, 2016

Beginning and Ending with Footnotes

In today’s post, WMQ author Michael D. Breidenbach (July 2016) reflects on the beginning and end of historical writing. by Michael D. Breidenbach An unavoidable task in historical writing is beginning and ending within particular time periods, dates, or moments. But while a published article denotes its end—the publication date—historical writing often does not admit of a beginning. The genesis of an… Read More

WMQ 5 min read

By oieahc August 17, 2016

How I learned to stop worrying and love Reader D

by Kirsten Fischer In today’s post, WMQ author Kirsten Fischer (July 2016) delves into her relationship with Reader D and how their interaction ultimately influenced her piece. Powerful intellectual opposition to one’s ideas is a disturbing, provoking, and very useful thing. That’s what I learned from Reader D, the anonymous reviewer who went to great lengths to refute the arguments… Read More

WMQ 6 min read

A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

Homesick for the Quarterly

Clarifying the purposely obscure

Jamestown, Peru?

The Notes You Don’t Play

My First Issue

Beginning and Ending with Footnotes

How I learned to stop worrying and love Reader D

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A short introduction to a very short introduction of IP

Comparing Apples and Oranges, Floors and Ceilings in Digital Scholarship

That New Book Smell: Early 2017 Edition

Finding Elizabeth Hooton's story

Connecting Peer Review and Pedagogy in the Classroom

Homesick for the Quarterly

Clarifying the purposely obscure

Jamestown, Peru?

The Notes You Don’t Play

My First Issue

Beginning and Ending with Footnotes

How I learned to stop worrying and love Reader D

Recent Posts

A Folder of One’s Own: Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin’s Life in Poetry

J.E. Morgan

Noel Edward Smyth

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