This document forms part of the East Florida Papers, a collection of records from the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821) in Florida held today at the Library of Congress. Following the stipulations of a royal decree from 1776 regulating marriage, Guillermo (William)...
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 case is an appeal heard before the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in Massachusetts prior to the American Revolution. The case originated in the Charlestown Inferior Court when Phoebe Tufts sued Thomas Welch for slander and...
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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...
