The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore is assembling an edition of letters written by or to those men between 1844 and 1853. During that decade, which preceded and included their terms in the White House, the United States expanded its boundaries...
In 2027 the Colonial Society of Massachusetts will publish a digital transcription of the Ruth Henshaw Bascom Papers, 1789-1846, transcribed by Mary Eileen Fouratt and edited by Maureen Egan and Sally Hadden. The original RHB Papers are held at the...
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...
These entries from John Gallison’s diaries contain a few updates on the financial affairs of Gallison’s Aunt Scott. Once known as Mrs. John Hancock, she was in the process of liquidating her estate, the enormous fortune inherited from her first husband having been...
In the wake of white supremacist violence in Clinton, Mississippi, citizens of Vicksburg wrote their governor in September 1875, warning that if protection was not provided to voters, they would be “forced away from the polls and not allowed to vote.” Addressing Gov....
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...
Jane Addams traveled to Boston with Mary McDowell to attend the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress, October 3-8, 1904. This document is pulled from the final three paragraphs of speech Addams delivered on October 5, at the Park Street Church the Public Meeting of...
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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...
