A new volume of the Collected Letters of Mary Todd Lincoln is currently underway under the auspices of the Lincoln Studies Center of the University of Illinois, to be published by the University of Illinois Press. The work, by editor and ADE member Jason Emerson, will add more than 300 new letters to the collection as well as correct errors in more than 150 previously published letters.
The Association for Documentary Editing's Semiquincentennial Committee (“SemiCom”) is coordinating the ADE's commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding. As announced in...
Kate Lynch was named the 2012-2013 English Language Fellow at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in Burdur, Turkey. Kate's grant is from the U.S. Dept. of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her duties include teaching, presentations at conferences,...
On the 8 January episode of Jeopardy, Gary Moulton was named in a clue concerning the Lewis and Clark Journals. In the category "Editor" in the Double Jeopardy round, the clue (for $1200) was: "Gary Moulton edited this 19th c. duo's journal--not easy when they...
The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual AHA meeting in New Orleans, on 6 January 2013. Ed Lengel, of the George Washington Papers and the University of Virginia, chaired the panel, "Building a Swiss Army Knife: A Panel on DocTracker, a Multi-Tool for Digital...
Esther Katz and Cathy Moran Hajo of the Margaret Sanger Papers, and Peter Wosh of NYU's Public History program, have co-authored a chapter "Teaching Digital Skills in an Archives and Public History Curriculum" in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles...
The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual MLA meeting in Boston, on 4 January 2013. Carol DeBoer-Langworthy chaired the panel, "Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts," which featured the following papers: "Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a year-long fellowship to Robert P. Forbes of the University of Connecticut to prepare an annotated digital edition of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. This will be the first edition to be...
The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 3: September 1833–August 1834. Edited by: Stephen S. Witte, Marsha V. Gallagher. Foreword by: Jack F. Becker. Translated by: Dieter Karch. Universi-ty of Oklahoma Press: 2012 (ISBN: 9780806139241) The...
The Collected Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Vol. 1: The Voyages. Edited by Germaine Warkentin. The Champlain Society and McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012 (ISBN: 9780773540828). Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured,...
The ADE brings historical documents to life by helping editors preserve, interpret, and share important records from the past with the public.
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the 2025 award. Since 1985, the Association for Documentary...
Dear Colleagues: The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) Nominating Committee requests advice, informal suggestions, and...
The North Carolina Office of Historical Publications and Digital Editions is seeking an editor for the North Carolina Governor's...
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is delighted to announce that Riley Ford, a graduate student in history at Texas...
