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The OI invites inquiries from authors of scholarly works pertaining to the histories and cultures of North America from circa 1450 to 1820, including related developments in the British Isles, Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean.

Send a cover letter a cover letter explaining the scope of the work, its current status and projected timeline to completion, a full proposal which includes a project overview and intervention, an annotated table of contents, and anticipated length, a bibliography of primary and secondary sources, an introduction or sample chapter that epitomizes the work, and a curriculum vitae to:

Assistant Editor of Books
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Box 8781
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781

Alternatively, you may e-mail materials to Assistant Editor of Books Emily Suth at ersuth@wm.edu. Allow four weeks for review. Please do not submit a complete manuscript unless invited to do so by the Editor of Books.

Please note:

All writing in the project must be original. All work must be original, and authors must properly cite the work of others and disclose the use of analytic tools.
Authors must disclose any substantive use of Generative AI in their work, in a general descriptive statement in the introduction and in specific notes, captions, etc., at the point where the tool was used. Please be prepared, if asked, to supply the editors with the tool used in each case, including the version number, as well as the prompt or parameters used. Please also keep a copy of the information generated by the AI tool in your research files so editors can consult it as needed.  Limited use of AI for the refinement of language during the revision process does not need to be disclosed.
The editorial staff does not use Generative AI programs during the review or editing process.