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ADE Updates and Congratulations
Dear members of the ADE community, Following the annual business meeting and virtual sessions that took place June 22–23, we would like to share some updates and words of congratulations. Thank you to the following outgoing members of the ADE Council for their...
Taylor-Fillmore Project 250th Blog Post
The Taylor-Fillmore project has a new blog post for the US 250th.
Discovery of New Dickinson Documents Makes the NYT
The recent discovery of four new documents written by John Dickinson in 1775 has been reported by The New York Times. They offer a remarkable view into the proceedings of the Second Continental Congress and Dickinson’s previously unknown efforts to avert...
Program Available for ADE Virtual Business Meeting and Sessions, June 22-23, 2026
Association for Documentary Editing Virtual Business Meeting, Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize Session, and America 250 Sessions June 22-23, 2026 The ADE will hold our Business Meeting virtually on June 22, 2026, at noon Eastern Daylight Time/ 11 a.m. Central/ 10 a.m....
Papers of Andrew Jackson: Hiring an Assistant Editor-Research Assistant Professor
The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville seeks a Research Assistant Professor of History to serve as Assistant Editor. The PAJ is producing a comprehensive edition of Jackson’s papers in seventeen bound volumes and two digital...
Martin Van Buren and the 250th Anniversary of the United States: A Symposium April 8-10, 2027
The Papers of Martin Van Buren is holding a symposium on April 8-10, 2027.
Documentary Editing as Resistance: A Round Table at NCPH 2027
As a field concerned with making historical evidence both available and accessible, documentary editing has long been understood to be closely related to public history. Many documentary editing projects, furthermore, reflect the concerns about social justice that...
Call for Nominations: The 2026 Lyman H. Butterfield Award
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the 2026 award. Since 1985, the Association for Documentary Editing has presented the Butterfield Award annually to recognize recent contributions in the areas of documentary publication, teaching, and...
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.
The Adams Papers Hiring Three Assistant / Associate Editors
The Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society seeks up to three full-time assistant or associate editors. These grant-funded positions are made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support work through...
