The Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture 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 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 Editor of Books Catherine E. Kelly.
The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
By Sarah Rivett
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2024
For God, King, and People
Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2024
Race Traffic
Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819
By Gunther Peck
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 2024
Encyclopédie noire
The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 2023
Seeing Red
Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2023
Captive Cosmopolitans
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 2024
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Migration and the Making of the United States
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2023
Unmoored
The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America
By Ana Schwartz
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 2023
The Occupation of Havana
War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2022
Fatal Revolutions
Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2022