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Early American Places is a collaborative book series, published by four university presses: University of Georgia Press, NYU Press, Northern Illinois University Press, and University of Nebraska Press.

The series focuses on the history of early North America, locating historical developments in the specific places where they occurred and were contested. Individual books in the series look at global phenomena, such as migration, trade, and war, and how they were experienced in particular communities—the local places where people lived, worked, and made sense of their changing worlds. Books in the series are exclusively revised dissertations, and are by first-time authors.

Early American Places is funded by a $648,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dispersed over a five-year period and administered by University of Georgia Press, the grant subsidizes project management and marketing and also pays for advances against royalties to series authors. The announcement of the grant occurred in March 2009 and the first book in the series was published in December 2010. There are currently six titles in print, with three more due to release later on in 2012.

The collaborating presses' responsibilities are divided geographically. University of Georgia Press focuses on the southeastern colonies, the plantation economies of the Caribbean, and the Spanish borderlands. NYU Press covers the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic colonies, and French and British Canada. Northern Illinois University Press covers the old Northwest. The University of Nebraska Press, which joined EAP in November of 2011, focuses on the American far West. Responsibility for signing books will reside with editors at the individual presses involved, who will be governed by their institutions' guidelines and practices concerning peer review, editorial board approval, manuscript revisions, and contracts.

An Advisory Board of early American history scholars helps to recruit manuscripts. The twelve members are: Vincent Brown, Harvard University; Stephanie M. H. Camp, University of Washington; Andrew Cayton, Miami University; Cornelia Hughes Dayton, University of Connecticut; Nicole Eustace, New York University; Amy S. Greenberg, Pennsylvania State University; Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago; Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia; Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University; Joshua Piker, University of Oklahoma; Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina; and Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University.