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October 7 deadline for submissions to Scholarly Editing
This is just a brief reminder that there is still time if you wish to submit to Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing for the 2014 issue. We will continue to receive submissions for essays on the theory and practice...
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln awarded an Amazon Web Services Grant
From Facebook: The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum announced today that Amazon Web Services has awarded the Papers of Abraham Lincoln an “AWS in Education Grant” of $24,000 in storage services. This will allow the Papers of Abraham Lincoln to store...
Job: Web-based Interactive Visualization Interface Developer
Are you a clever and resourceful programmer with experience in developing web-based interactive visualizations? Do you want to join a team that's building innovative interfaces for exploring and better understanding large text collections? We're looking for a...
Jobs: Editorial and Technical Specialist, XML/metadata, University of Virginia Press
The University of Virginia Press seeks to hire an Editorial and Technical Specialist within our Rotunda division (http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda/), which publishes peer-reviewed born-digital scholarly works. The incumbent in this position will be working...
Job: Associate Editor, Mark Twain Papers, University of California, Berkeley
Departmental Overview Located in the midst of the Mark Twain Papers in The Bancroft Library, the Mark Twain Project is editing and publishing a comprehensive scholarly edition of Mark Twain's writings, including all of his letters, notebooks, and unpublished...
Senate Committee Restores Funding for NHPRC
From our friends at the National Coalition for History: "The Senate Financial Services & General Government Subcommittee today passed a FY 14 funding bill that provides $5 million for the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). NCH...
Search for Lincoln Papers at the National Archives Threatened
The Washington Post reported that the Abraham Lincoln Papers might be forced to cease its search for Lincoln documents at the National Archives, due to funding shortages. The article focuses on the impact that the funding shortage will have on the Lincoln Papers'...
Guide to Documentary Editing, 3rd ed. Released in Open Access Form
News from David Sewell: Following agreement among the ADE Council, the UVA Press, and the book's authors, the online version of Mary Jo Kline & Susan Holbrook Perdue's "A Guide to Documentary Editing" (3rd edition) is now available to all as an open-access...
Abraham Lincoln’s Missing Math Homework Found!
Read about how math teachers at the Illinois State University were able to rejoin a loose page of young Abraham Lincoln's math problems with ten other surviving pages, in a post by ISU's Media Relations. From the post: “The discovery of an 11th leaf of Lincoln’s...
Publication of the Founders Online Announced.
From the White House Blog: What was the original intent behind the Constitution and other documents that helped shape the nation? What did the Founders of our country have to say? Those questions persist in the political debates and discussions to this day, and...
