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OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute)
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We support the scholars and scholarship of early America, broadly understood to mean the Atlantic World between roughly the 1480s and 1820. We publish the William and Mary Quarterly and a series of award-winning books as well as sponsor conferences & more.
We’re hiring: Editor of William & Mary Quarterly — a ten-year, renewable, tenure-eligible appointment at the rank of Full or advanced Associate Professor. Appointment begins June 25, 2026. Review begins November 24, 2025. williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det...
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Oct. issue of The William and Mary Quarterly is out now! It follows Dutch-trained soldiers to Jamestown, uncovers enslaved resistance in the Caribbean, revisits abolition-era debates through new eyes, and shows how Equiano’s reach went farther than previously known. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55884
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Congrats to Naomi Sussman, winner of the 2025 Robert F. Heizer Article Award for “‘Related Around the Mountain’” (in Ethnohistory). @ethnohistjournal.bsky.social
More info: ethnohistory.org/awards-suppo...
Robert F. Heizer Article Award - American Society for Ethnohistory
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October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
📅 Oct. 24–25 • 📍 Williamsburg, VA
For 2026: Wartime Transformations Conference — how Revolutionary conflict reshaped lives across & beyond British North America.

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October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Conflict in the age of Revolution reached far beyond battlefields.
Join scholars & public historians at For 2026: Wartime Transformations (Oct. 24–25, Williamsburg, VA).
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#For2026 #WartimeTransformations
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Join us for the Digital Projects Coffeehouse for fascinating digital initiatives in #vastearlyamerica, and be sure to apply for Prof. Sarah Finley's “Oceanic Perspectives on Vast Early America” or Kristin Gallas “Whose History, Whose Voice? The Future of Interpreting Enslavement at Historic Sites”
October 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Extended deadline to apply for seats at our two NEW OI Coffeehouses, #VastEarlyAmerica AND a whole new year of the Digital Projects Coffeehouse and the "Just Write" table -- check it out! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We are diving back in to another season of OI Coffeehouses, Vast Early America! Come check them out - two have application deadlines of midnight, October 12, so apply now! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
OI Coffeehouse - OIEAHC
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 online gathering place for many in the early A...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award has gone to Eric Herschthal and John L. Brooke for their WMQ article “The Plantation Carbon Complex: Slavery and the Origins of Climate Change in the Early Modern British Atlantic” (April 2024). Congratulations to both! lnkd.in/ePkYr5nt
3D SER., 81, No. 2 (April 2024) - OIEAHC
THE FRANKLIN STOVE: MODERN MATERIALITY, MADE IN PENNSYLVANIA Joyce E. Chaplin Abstract 219 THE PLANTATION CARBON COMPLEX: SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH ATLANTIC...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Still time to apply for the 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop at the Huntington Library. Proposals due Sept. 15:🗃️

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WMQ-EMSI 2026 Workshop - OIEAHC
Apply by September 15, 2025, for the WMQ-EMSI Workshop—"Global Early America before 1700"—convened by Alison Games. Workshop convenes January 30-31, 2026.
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September 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Little less than a month left to get your proposal in for "WARTIME TRANSFORMATIONS" the 4th in the "For 2026" series. What better time to discuss the AmRev than now and where better than Williamsburg? CFP closes 4/15. bit.ly/3Fk6Rl5
For 2026: Wartime Transformations - OIEAHC
Join us this October for the fourth "For 2026" conference. Call for Proposals now open. Proposals due April 15, 2025.
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March 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In or around Williamsburg VA tomorrow afternoon? We may not have a huge bridge, hip restaurants, or even any restaurants -hip or not- open after about 9 pm but! we DO have none other than MARLENE DAUT coming to speak! Join us!
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Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut - OIEAHC
Talk by award-winning author Marlene Daut (Yale University) on March 5, 2025, at Hennage Auditorium, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA.
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March 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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We've had two great @oieahc.bsky.social DH Coffeehouse sessions so far this term featuring two compelling projects on slavery, archives, artificial intelligence, and the orality of early America. Check out Jane Landers, Daniel Genkins, and Sophie White. More to come!

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OI Coffeehouse Season 2 - YouTube
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March 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Excited to announce that Sara E. Johnson has won the 2024 P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)! Congratulations, Prof. Johnson!
March 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
And another great lecture next week - join us for the Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut, "A King's World: The Rise and Fall of Haiti's King Henry Christophe." Hennage Aud., Art Museums of Colonial Wmsbg, 5:00 pm on WEDS, MARCH 5. oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...
Vast Early America Lecture with Marlene Daut - OIEAHC
Talk by award-winning author Marlene Daut (Yale University) on March 5, 2025, at Hennage Auditorium, Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The last bits of winter storm "Kingston" are gone and we are back on track...
February 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, Vast Early America. Excited to be here.
a sunset sky with a lot of clouds
Alt: Dawn of a new day
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February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM