Omohundro Institute Conference Virtual Exhibit

Welcome to the UNC Press Virtual Exhibit for the Omohundro Institute Annual Conference.



We’re looking forward to getting together at the conference. But in case you won’t be traveling this year, we’re bringing our book exhibit to you. From virtually anywhere, you can browse our list of new and recent titles, chat with OI editor of books Nick Popper, and more.

All of our books (in fact, our entire site) are available now at our 40 percent OI conference discount. Plus if your order totals $75, domestic U.S. shipping is FREE! Just use promo code 01DAH40 at checkout.

Click here for our full list of books in Early American history.

Follow the links at the left for information on submitting a book proposal, ordering desk or examination copies (even free digital exam copies), classroom permissions, disability resources, and more. We’ve even created a handy FAQ document, with answers to the most-asked questions we get at exhibit booths.

Click on any book below to learn more. And, using our View Inside feature, you can leaf through the pages for a preview of each new book, just as if you were standing at our booth. Check it out on each book page.


Encyclopédie noire

Encyclopédie noire

The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

Sara E. Johnson

Captivity's Collections

Captivity's Collections

Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade

Kathleen S. Murphy

Muddy Ground

Muddy Ground

Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent

John William Nelson

The Cutting-Off Way

The Cutting-Off Way

Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800

Wayne E. Lee

Seeing Red

Seeing Red

Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

Unmoored

Unmoored

The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America

Ana Schwartz

Underwriters of the United States

Underwriters of the United States

How Insurance Shaped the American Founding

Hannah Farber

Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic

The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis

Jan Ellen Lewis, Barry Bienstock, Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter Onuf

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain

Migration and the Making of the United States

Samantha Seeley

Voices of the Enslaved

Voices of the Enslaved

Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana

Sophie White

American Baroque

American Baroque

Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700

Molly A. Warsh

Religion and the American Revolution

Religion and the American Revolution

An Imperial History

Katherine Carté

Thirteen Clocks

Thirteen Clocks

How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence

Robert G. Parkinson

Convulsed States

Convulsed States

Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America

Jonathan Todd Hancock

The Strange Genius of Mr. O

The Strange Genius of Mr. O

The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity

Carolyn Eastman

Jamaica Ladies

Jamaica Ladies

Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire

Christine Walker

Mining Language

Mining Language

Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World

Allison Margaret Bigelow

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

Susan Sleeper-Smith

Standard-Bearers of Equality

Standard-Bearers of Equality

America’s First Abolition Movement

Paul J. Polgar

Eloquence Embodied

Eloquence Embodied

Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Céline Carayon

The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare

The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare

A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina

Sean M. Kelley

Virginia 1619

Virginia 1619

Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America

Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn

Caribbean New Orleans

Caribbean New Orleans

Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society

Cécile Vidal

Darkness Falls on the Land of Light

Darkness Falls on the Land of Light

Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England

Douglas L. Winiarski

Allegories of Encounter

Allegories of Encounter

Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities

Andrew Newman

The Occupation of Havana

The Occupation of Havana

War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Elena A. Schneider

The History and Present State of Virginia

The History and Present State of Virginia

A New Edition with an Introduction by Susan Scott Parrish

Robert Beverley, Susan Scott Parrish

Children of Uncertain Fortune

Children of Uncertain Fortune

Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833

Daniel Livesay

Ireland in the Virginian Sea

Ireland in the Virginian Sea

Colonialism in the British Atlantic

Audrey Horning

Love in the Time of Revolution

Love in the Time of Revolution

Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

Andrew Cayton

Final Passages

Final Passages

The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Gregory E. O'Malley

Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World

Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World

Recognition after Revolution

Julia Gaffield

This Violent Empire

This Violent Empire

The Birth of an American National Identity

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

In the Eye of All Trade

In the Eye of All Trade

Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783

Michael J. Jarvis

The Politics of War

The Politics of War

Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia

Michael A. McDonnell

Revolutionary Conceptions

Revolutionary Conceptions

Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820

Susan E. Klepp

By Birth or Consent

By Birth or Consent

Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority

Holly Brewer

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis

Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850

Steven W. Hackel

A Colony of Citizens

A Colony of Citizens

Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

Laurent Dubois

Sugar and Slaves

Sugar and Slaves

The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713

Richard S. Dunn

The Persistence of Empire

The Persistence of Empire

British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

Eliga H. Gould

The Other Founders

The Other Founders

Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828

Saul Cornell

Forced Founders

Forced Founders

Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia

Woody Holton

Revolutionary Brotherhood

Revolutionary Brotherhood

Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840

Steven C. Bullock

Slave Counterpoint

Slave Counterpoint

Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Philip D. Morgan

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes

In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes

The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820

David Waldstreicher

Women of the Republic

Women of the Republic

Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America

Linda K. Kerber

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

Kathleen M. Brown

A People's Army

A People's Army

Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War

Fred Anderson

Laboratories of Virtue

Laboratories of Virtue

Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835

Michael Meranze

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Revolutionary Rifleman

Don Higginbotham