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New Volume of Collected Letters of Mary Todd Lincoln Underway

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.

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...

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...

The Papers of Jefferson Davis

Congratulations to Lynda Crist and her team - Volume 14 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis has been published, completing the edition.  Project resources are being folded into those of Fondren Library and the Woodson Research Center (Special Collections), Rice...

Screen shot of Thomas Jefferson's weather records book

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