The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is excited to announce “Out of the Archive: A 250+ Year Mosaic of American Documents.” Launched as the nation commemorates 250 years of independence, this digital gallery features documents from throughout the history of what came to be called the United States of America. See it at https://documentaryediting.org/250th-gallery.
The Association for Documentary Editing and eLaboratories invite proposals for “Editing at a Crossroads: A Joint Conference on the State of Recovery and Documentary Editing in 2027.” The hybrid event will be held in Charlottesville, VA, and virtually on June 25–27, 2027. Proposals are due on January 29.
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project publishes The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., the definitive edition of King’s most historically significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts. The Project seeks a full-time research assistant...
The Julian P. Boyd Award committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award for 2016. The award is presented every three years by the Association for Documentary Editing to a senior scholar in honor of a distinguished contribution to the study of American...
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 areas...
October sees the publication of the third and final volume of Autobiography of Mark Twain, chronicling the author's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations...
The third and final volume Robinson Jeffers's correspondence was published by Stanford University Press in August, along with a revised edition of the biographical introduction from Volume One. The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una...
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 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...
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 1,...
The ADE brings historical documents to life by helping editors preserve, interpret, and share important records from the past with the public.
The Society for Textual Scholarship 2022 conference will be hosted by Loyola University Chicago May 26-28, with the theme of...
ADE Members may be interested in submitting papers to the 2022 Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference. The...
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2022. Since...
It is with deep sadness that I announce the death of our friend and colleague Jenn Steenshorne who has died from Covid-19. Many...
