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By Katherine Smoak August 23, 2017

Money matters

Today’s post is from Katherine Smoak, author of “The Weight of Necessity: Counterfeit Coins in the British Atlantic World, 1760-1800” (William and Mary Quarterly, July 2017). When I started the research for the larger project from which my recent WMQ article is drawn—a history of the practices and politics of counterfeiting in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world—I had been committed… Read More

WMQ 7 min read

By Carolyn Arena July 19, 2017

Welcome Carolyn Arena, new OI-NEH Fellow

Carolyn Arena is a historian of the Atlantic World, focusing on histories of native peoples in the Americas and slavery. Dr. Arena is the 2017-2019 National Endowment of the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Prior to joining the Omohundro Institute, she completed her PhD at Columbia University with funding from Foreign… Read More

fellowships 4 min read

By Karin Wulf July 12, 2017

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

The 2017 Scholars’ Workshop has convened in Williamsburg. Thanks to the Lapidus Initiative, six scholars are braving the heat to work on book and article projects with the OI’s editorial staff. Zack Dorner is a lecturer in history at Stanford University. He is working on a chapter from his book project on the globalization of British medicines in… Read More

fellowships 5 min read

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). 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 public good. Intellectual… 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 Benjamin L. Carp February 01, 2017

Homesick for the Quarterly

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 lack of civic engagement… Read More

WMQ 8 min read

By Gabriel Cervantes 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 Christopher Heaney 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 Samuel Fisher 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

Money matters

Welcome Carolyn Arena, new OI-NEH Fellow

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

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

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Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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Money matters

Welcome Carolyn Arena, new OI-NEH Fellow

Welcome the 2017 Scholars' Workshop

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

Recent Posts

Peer Review for the Born-Digital?

BJ Lillis

Patrick Barker

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