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.
Saltwater
Grief in Early America
By Mary Eyring
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2025
Citizen Spectator
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2025
Warring for America
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Edited by Nicole Eustace , Fredrika J. Teute
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2025
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 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
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
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