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Editorial Associate, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson seeks an Editorial Associate, who will be a key member of a collaborative team of seven full-time professionals preparing the authoritative edition of Jefferson’s papers for publication in print and online. The project’s focus now is...
Job Announcement: Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project publishes The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., the definitive edition of King’s most historically significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts. The Project seeks a full-time research...
Call for nominations: Julian P. Boyd Award
The Julian P. Boyd Award committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award for 2016. The award is presented every three years by the Association for Documentary Editing to a senior scholar in honor of a distinguished contribution to the study of American...
Butterfield Award Nominations
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award in 2016. This award is presented annually by the Association for Documentary Editing to an individual, editorial project, or institution for notable contributions in the...
Third and final volume of Autobiography of Mark Twain published!
October sees the publication of the third and final volume of Autobiography of Mark Twain, chronicling the author's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these...
Final Volume of Robinson Jeffers’s Correspondence Published
The third and final volume Robinson Jeffers's correspondence was published by Stanford University Press in August, along with a revised edition of the biographical introduction from Volume One. The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una...
Jane Addams Papers Opens at Ramapo College
I am very pleased to announce the opening of the Jane Addams Papers Project at Ramapo College of New Jersey. This new project, funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, aims to publish documents from the second half of Addams' life...
David Chesnutt’s headstone
David R. Chesnutt, an early pioneer in digital humanities, died on December 15, 2014. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/MontgomeryAdvertiser/obituary.aspx?pid=173539919 He donated his body to the University of Vermont’s Medical School so he could continue to be of...
Civil War Governors of Kentucky Web Development RFP
The Kentucky Historical Society, through the support of the NHPRC, has issued a request for proposals for the development of "Early Access," the first public web interface of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition. Proposals are due October...
DiXiT Convention: Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition
Registrations are now open for the DiXiT Convention - Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition (The Hague, 16 - 18 September). A detailed schedule, registration form and logistic info at http://dixit.huygens.knaw.nl/ Please note that...
