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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...
Publications Editor, U.S. Grant Papers
Assistant Editor of the U.S. Grant Papers Project Position Description Position Title: Publications Editor Number of Positions: 1 Area of Specialization: ONE-YEAR APPOINTMENT as Assistant Editor of the U.S. Grant Papers Project (July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014)...
General Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
 Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson  Princeton University seeks a distinguished documentary scholar to serve as General Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (see http://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/). The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. and...
10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship–Call for Papers
10th Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS 2013) Variance in textual scholarship and genetic criticism / La variance en philologie et en critique génétique  20-22 November 2013 École normale supérieure, Paris                             ...
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative–Call for Papers
CFP: Issue 7 of the Papers accepted on any theme relating to the TEI Papers due 28 October  2013 http://journal.tei-c.org/journal http://journal.tei-c.org/journal The Editors of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative are delighted to announce a CFP for Issue 7...
Editorial/ Research Assistant at Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
Editorial/ Research Assistant (.75FTE). [Position #460] The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the non-profit that owns and operates Monticello, the historic home and estate of Thomas Jefferson, seeks an editorial/research assistant to join the staff of the Papers of...
