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

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...

📅 Oct. 24–25 • 📍 Williamsburg, VA For 2026: Wartime Transformations Conference — how Revolutionary conflict reshaped lives across & beyond British North America. Register & learn more: oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv... #For2026 #WartimeTransformations #History

Conflict in the age of Revolution reached far beyond battlefields. Join scholars & public historians at For 2026: Wartime Transformations (Oct. 24–25, Williamsburg, VA). Register & learn more: oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv... #For2026 #WartimeTransformations

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”

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...

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...

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

Still time to apply for the 2026 WMQ-EMSI workshop at the Huntington Library. Proposals due Sept. 15:🗃️ oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

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

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! oieahc.wm.edu/events-overv...

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! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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!

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...

The last bits of winter storm "Kingston" are gone and we are back on track...

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, Vast Early America. Excited to be here.