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Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture

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Research organization at the College of William & Mary

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) is an independent research organization located in Williamsburg, Virginia, sponsored by the College of William & Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) is an independent research organization located in Williamsburg, Virginia, sponsored by the College of William & Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Founded in 1943, the OI supports the scholars and scholarship of vast early America—a term used to describe the capacious histories of North America and related geographies, including foundational histories of indigenous peoples, the scale and impact of transatlantic slavery, and multidimensional European colonization and settlement, from the 1450s to the 1820s.2

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