Archive for the ‘WMQ’ Category
oieahc · August 11th, 2021 ·
How an intellectual collaboration brought four lives into focus By Karen B. Graubart This article began with a generous hand-off from a friend and colleague. Luis Miguel Glave, an eminent Peruvian scholar and regular denizen of the reading room of the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, enjoys taking a morning break from research with… Read More »
oieahc · June 8th, 2021 ·
By Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri Eliga Gould and Rosemarie Zagarri convened the forum “Situating the United States in Vast Early America” in the April 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly. When Martha Howard invited us to write a piece about our recent forum, “Situating the United States in Vast Early America,” saying… Read More »
oieahc · June 2nd, 2021 ·
WMQ author Cameron B. Strang examines the long process of rewriting his April 2021 article during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joshua Piker · March 22nd, 2021 ·
The OI reader is a powerful tool for doing the sort of work that early Americanists do. Why not think about taking it for a spin?
oieahc · March 17th, 2021 ·
By Gordon M. Sayre, author of “Jefferson Takes on Buffon: The Polemic on American Animals in Notes on the State of Virginia” in the January 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia has intrigued me for my entire career. In my dissertation research I read Wayne… Read More »
oieahc · March 3rd, 2021 ·
By Whitney Barlow Robles If given the option to expand my already-lengthy article, “The Rattlesnake and the Hibernaculum,” which appeared in the January 2021 William & Mary Quarterly—well, I would probably decline for fear of losing my reader in its serpentine folds. If forced to expand my essay, on the other hand, I would have… Read More »
Joshua Piker · January 20th, 2021 ·
By Joshua Piker, Editor It will likely come as no surprise to learn that I spend way too much time worrying about authorial voice. For an editor, that’s very on-brand. I only raise the issue because I’ve been worrying, in particular, about my authorial voice on this blog. I’ve got two go-to voices for blog… Read More »