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 OI is an independent research organization sponsored by William & Mary. All editorial work, including acquisitions, for OI books is done under the direction of OI Editor of Books Catherine E. Kelly.
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
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: August 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
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
Religion and the American Revolution
An Imperial History
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: June 2021
Thirteen Clocks
How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 2021
The Strange Genius of Mr. O
The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: March 2021
Jamaica Ladies
Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: June 2020
Mining Language
Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 2020