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.
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
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
Underwriters of the United States
How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 2021
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic
The Essays of Jan Ellen Lewis
By Jan Ellen Lewis Edited by Barry Bienstock , Annette Gordon-Reed , Peter Onuf
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 2021
Voices of the Enslaved
Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
By Sophie White
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2021
American Baroque
Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 2021