The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (OI) is the oldest organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to the advancement of study, research, and publications bearing on the history and culture of early America. Books published through UNC Press’s publishing partnership with the OI, which dates back more than half a century, have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, several Bancroft Prizes, and the Francis Parkman Prize.
The Omohundro Institute is an independent research organization sponsored by William & Mary and Colonial Williamsburg. All editorial work, including acquisitions, for OI books is done under the direction of OI Interim Editor of Books Nicholas Popper.
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Releases from the Omohundro Institute include:
Indigenous Mobility, Placemaking, and Power in the Early South
Law, Politics, and Slavery in North America
Benjamin Quarles's The Negro in the American Revolution
A New Critical Edition
Underwriters of the United States
How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Essays on the Founding Era
America’s First Abolition Movement
Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
Being Catholic in English America
Grief in Early America
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Migration and the Making of the United States
The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America
War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Religion and the American Revolution
An Imperial History
How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity
Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest
Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America
Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Darkness Falls on the Land of Light
Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England
Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela
Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
The History and Present State of Virginia
A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish
Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833
Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
India in the Making of Britain and America, 1600-1830
Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America
Love in the Time of Revolution
Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818
Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830
The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752
The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics
The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics
Vol X: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1824-April 1827
Vol. IV: Correspondence and Papers, January 1799-October 1800
Vol. V: Selected Law Cases, 1784-1800
Volume IX: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1820-December 1823
Vol. II: Correspondence and Papers, July 1788-December 1795, and Account Book, July 1788-December 1795
Vol. VIII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, March 1814-December 1819
Vol. XI: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1827 - December 1830
Vol. VII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, April 1807-December 1813
Vol. I: Correspondence and Papers, November 10, 1775-June 23, 1788, and Account Book, September 1783-June 1788
Vol XII: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, January 1831-July 1835, with Addendum, June 1783-January 1829
Vol. VI: Correspondence, Papers, and Selected Judicial Opinions, November 1800-March 1807
Vol. III: Correspondence and Papers, January 1796-December 1798
Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power
Party Operations, 1801-1809
The Glorious Revolution in America
Documents on the Colonial Crisis of 1689
The Campaign for the Sugar Islands, 1759
A Study of Amphibious Warfare
Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution
Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783
Reluctant Reformer
First American Architect
White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
The Democratic Republicans of New York
The Origins, 1763-1797
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
The Arts in Early American History
Needs and Opportunities for Study
Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia
The First American Porcelain Factory, 1770-1772
American Federalist
A Political History, 1663-1763
Kentucky Politics, 1779-1792
Wilderness Diplomat
The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton, 1744
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747
A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
Colonial Enterpriser
The Birth of an American National Identity
Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783
American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Meeting House and Counting House
The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763
Political Practices in Washington's Virginia
A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792
Volume III