# Karin Wulf
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Karin A. Wulf (born August 26, 1964) is an American historian and the executive director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Wulf began her tenure as the Director of the Omohundro Institute on July 1, 2013. She is also one of the founders of Women Also Know History, a searchable website database of women historians.
Lineage Book Preview
Preview of Karin Wulf’s book, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America. In eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties--it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage delves into an era where individuals, families, and institut…
400 Ben Franklin's world
How do historians define Ben Franklin’s “world?” What historical event, person, or place in the era of Ben Franklin do they wish you knew about? In celebration of the 400th episode of Ben Franklin’s World, we posed these questions to more than 20 scholars. What do they think? Join the celebratio…
253 Life and Revolution in Boston and Grenada
What can a family history tell us about revolutionary and early republic America? What can the letters of a wife and mother tell us about life in the Caribbean during the Age of Revolutions? These are questions Susan Clair Imbarrato, a Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead, …
225 The Poison Plot: Adultery and Murder in Colonial Newport
In 1738, a cooper named Benedict Arnold petitioned the Rhode Island General Assembly for a divorce from his wife Mary Ward Arnold. Benedict claimed that Mary had taken a lover and together they had attempted to murder him with poison. How did this story of love, divorce, and attempted murder unfol…
Bonus: Behind the Scenes of the Adams-Jefferson Letters
In 1959, the Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press published Lester J. Cappon’s The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams. It was the first time that all 380 letters between Jefferson and the Adamses appeared in…
178 Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
In 1535, Spanish holdings in the Americas proved so great that the Spanish government created the Viceroyalty of New Spain to govern all territory north of the Isthmus of Panama. The jurisdiction of New Spain included areas of upper and lower California and large areas of the American southwest an…
135 Moral Commerce: The Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
If early Americans desired slaves mostly to produce sugarcane, cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco, what would happen if Europeans and early Americans stopped purchasing those products?
Would boycotting slave-produced goods and starving slavery of its economic sustenance be enough to end the practi…
114 The History of Genealogy (Doing History)
History has a history and genealogy has a history. And the histories of both affect how and why we study the past and how we understand and view it. Today, we explore why it’s important for us to understand that the practices and processes of history and genealogy have histories by exploring what …
106 The World of John Singleton Copley
What can the life of an artist reveal about the American Revolution and how most American men and women experienced it? Today, we explore the life and times of John Singleton Copley with Jane Kamensky, a Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of A Revolution in Color: The World …
Family Structure and Genealogy in Early America with Karin Wulf
Genealogy includes creating your family tree. But how is it also essential to understanding politics, war, and the economy in Early America? Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome historian Dr. Karin Wulf for a conversation about the creation of the British legal concept of family—and h…
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