Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
Princeton, New Jersey
June 20-22, 2019
We look forward to seeing you at the ADE Annual Meeting!
The deadline for online registration has now passed.
Conference Events: Program sessions and special events on Thursday, June 20, and Saturday, June 22, will take place at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. The reception on Thursday evening will be at Princeton University Press. Sessions on Friday, June 21, will be on the Princeton University campus. We will provide bus transportation between the hotel and the on-campus venues. The full program of activities is here.
Conference Hotel: Hyatt Regency Princeton. The cutoff date for booking at the Hyatt Regency Princeton at the conference rate has now passed. You may still be able to book a room there for some nights at another rate. If you need to find other accommodations, see here for possibilities.
Travel: Princeton is reachable by plane (Newark and Philadelphia are the two closest major airports), train (station stop Princeton Junction is about two miles from the Hyatt Regency Princeton), and car. Please see the travel information page for additional details.
About Princeton: As well as the university, Princeton is home to historic sites and other attractions, with shopping and restaurants on Nassau Street a block or two from where the meeting presentations will be taking place on Friday. Information on getting around Princeton is here. A list of events and exhibits taking place in Princeton during the time of the editing institute and the ADE is here.
Questions? Email tjpapers@princeton.edu. See you in Princeton!
Association for Documentary Editing Annual Meeting
Princeton, New Jersey 20-22 June 2019 Evidence! and the Editing of Historical Documents
Preliminary Program
Note: times for some events may shift slightly
Thursday, June 20
Registration Table Open, Lower Level Hyatt RegencyPoster Session, Witherspoon Ballroom, Hyatt Regency
Welcome and Critical Issues Discussion Session: Paths Forward for Another Forty,
Witherspoon Ballroom, Hyatt Regency
Presidential Welcome:
Jefferson Looney, Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
Critical Issues Discussion Session:
Ondine Le Blanc (moderator), Massachusetts Historical Society
Dale S. Brenneman, O’odham-Piipaash Documentary History Project, “Indigenous Oral Traditions as Evidence”
Marty D. Matthews, Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, “Helping Historic Sites and Museums Recognize and Cite Evidence from Documentary Editions”
Annual Business Meeting, Witherspoon Ballroom, Hyatt Regency
BUSES FROM HYATT TO THE RECEPTION START AT 5:30 AND LOOP UNTIL 8:30
Reception begins, Princeton University Press, 41 William Street
BUSES LOOP BACK TO THE HYATT THROUGHOUT THE RECEPTION, ENDING AT 8:30
Friday, June 21
BUSES FROM HYATT TO THE FRIEND CENTER START AT 7:30 AND LOOP UNTIL 9:30 am Registration Table Open,outside Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Session:Navigating Evidence That Challenges Representation
Computer Science 104, Princeton University
Paul Israel (chair), Thomas A. Edison Papers
Ronald Broude, Broude Trust for the Publication of Musicological Editions, “Part Books Into Scores: Misrepresenting Fifteenth-Century Music in Modern Editions”
Mary Sherrer, Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, “Editing Documents Using Diplomatic Codes and Exploring their Significance”
Kathryn Tomasek, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, “Accounting Records as Evidence: People, Things, and Services in the Past”
Break, outside Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Concurrent Sessions
Session A: The Evidence of Women in the Papers of Dolley Madison and the Pinckney Statesmen
Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Constance B. Schulz (chair), Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, “Pinckney Wives and the Practice of Diplomacy”
Lauren Haumesser, Dolley Madison Digital Edition, “Evidence and the Documentary Edition: The Partisan Press and the Dolley Madison Digital Edition”
Amy Larrabee Cotz, Dolley Madison Digital Edition, “Evidence of Slavery: The Taylor Family in Slavery and Freedom”
Session B: Documenting War
Friend Center 004, Princeton University
Benjamin L. Huggins (chair), Papers of George Washington
Rhonda Barlow, Adams Papers, “Rumors of War”
Robb K. Haberman, Selected Papers of John Jay, “John Jay and the Limits of Partisanship during the Quasi-War”
Andrew J. B. Fagal, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, “Reconstructing the Social History of the Military in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson”
Lunch, on your own
Session: Cooperative Action for Documentary Evidence: The Primary Source Cooperative (roundtable)
Computer Science 104, Princeton University
Sara Martin (moderator), Adams Papers
Deborah Gussman, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters
Neal Millikan, John Quincy Adams Diary Digital Project
David Ramsey, Papers of Roger Brooke Taney
Serenity Sutherland, Ellen Swallow Richards Digital Archive
Break,outside Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Concurrent Sessions
Session A:Untangling Presidential Evidence
Friend Center 004, Princeton University
Martha J. King (chair), Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Coens, Papers of Andrew Jackson, “Did Andrew Jackson Write His Own State Papers?”
William M. Ferraro, Washington Papers and formerly Ulysses S. Grant Association, “President Ulysses S. Grant’s State Papers”
Session B: In Light of the Evidence: End-of-Project Goals and Reflections (roundtable)
Friend Center 006, Princeton University
Michael David Cohen (moderator and participant), James K. Polk Project
Holly C. Shulman, Dolley Madison Digital Edition
Lois More Overbeck, Letters of Samuel Beckett Project
Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers
* BUSES FROM THE FRIEND CENTER TO HYATT START AT END OF SESSIONS AND LOOP UNTIL 6:30 pm *
Reception starts, Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency
Banquet, Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency
Saturday, June 22
Breakfast, Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt RegencySeeking the Papers of the Earliest Years of our National Government: The Presidency, Judiciary, Congress, War and Navy Departments (roundtable)
Witherspoon Foyer, Hyatt Regency
Kenneth Bowling, on the First Federal Congress
Dennis Conrad, on the Navy Department
Theodore Crackel, on the War Department
Mary-Jo Kline, on Washington’s Presidency
Jonathan White, on the Supreme Court
