Phillis Wheatley Peters’s poem “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c.” was published in her collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773. In this poem, Wheatley...
On June 27, 1903, the ground-breaking African American writer of fiction, Charles Chesnutt, sent letters to both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Chesnutt had a long-standing friendship with Washington, but he aligned in thought more with Du Bois who...
The Cherokee dramatist Lynn Riggs, the author of six plays produced on Broadway, was born in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in 1899, a decade into the land runs that led to the loss of millions of acres of Indigenous land. Soon after his eighth birthday in...
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Symposium On Students in Documentary Editing and Recovery WorkCall for Proposals | Virtual Symposium | April 16, 2027The...
The ADE is saddened to learn of the loss of John C. A. Stagg on October 31. John Stagg was hired as editor-in-chief of the...
The ADE is saddened to learn of the loss of Mary Hackett on October 23. Mary Hackett joined the staff of the Papers of James...
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) invites applications for its annual prize in honor of Sharon Ritenour Stevens...
