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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The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is excited to announce "Out of the Archive: A 250+ Year Mosaic of American...
The Association for Documentary Editing and the University of Virginia Center for Digital Editing’s eLaboratories announce...
The Association for Documentary Editing will host a virtual member forum on Wednesday, October 21, at 1–2 PM EDT (UTC–4), on the...
Congratulations to Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, Brendan Allen, and Raffaele Viglianti,* who have been named the recipients of the...
