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Barbara Oberg to Speak on Jefferson as Party Leader and President
Barbara B. Oberg, general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, will speak November 3 on the campus of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. She will "address the question of how Jefferson balanced his rhetorical 'non-partisanship' with the reality of leading...
Call for Papers: The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750
THE EDITION AS ARGUMENT, 1550-1750 16-17 July 2014 Queen Mary, University of London Call for Papers Keynote Speakers: Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield) Professor Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford University) Confirmed speakers: Kate Bennett, Christopher...
Sharon Ritenour Stevens Fund
The ADE has established a fund to honor the memory of Sharon Ritenour Stevens. To make a contribution, go to the Donate to the ADE page or send a check to ADE Secretary Darrell Meadows at Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Kentucky...
Fall 2013 E-newsletter now available!
The issue features news, a look back at the Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, project summaries from editors who attended the 2013 Summer Editing Institute, and more! Â To read, click...
Resolution of Appreciation to the Journal of American History
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, on July 11, the ADE Council unanimously adopted the following resolution: Resolution of Appreciation to the Journal of American History The Association for Documentary Editing proclaims this Resolution of Appreciation to the Journal of...
We Are Not Alone
Documentary editors may not have as direct a presence on cable TV as historical archaeologists, but we can see a lot of ourselves in a recent posting by Paul Mullins, the president of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With some substitution of terms, he's...
Chronicling a Digital Edition of Defoe
In a blog post, "Digital editing with undergraduates: some reflections," Stephen Gregg and Jess MacCarthy at Bath University chronicle their experiences creating an online digital edition of Daniel Defoe's A Hymn to the Pillory, which became MacCarthy's...
2014 Digital Humanities Summer Institute – Registration
The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation in different...
How Can the ADE Improve Efforts to Work with Amateur Editors?
I recently came across Ben Brumfield's summary of his recent presentation at the Social Digital Scholarly Editing meeting, on "The Collaborative Future of Amateur Editions." Brumfield, self-described as "not a scholarly editor. . . an amateur editor and...
Louis Gallo’s Recent Poster Session
From the Review comes coverage of a poster from the ADE's recent meeting in Ann Arbor: "Louis Gallo enjoys the look, feel and smell of history. "An American Studies graduate student at Youngstown State University, Gallo, 26, formerly of Chester, began discovering...
