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Upcoming symposium: Jefferson Davis’s America: Perspectives on the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States
February 19-20, 2016, Rice University In 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois pointed to Jefferson Davis as “a representative of civilization” as it had developed over the previous century. Scholars have often remembered the 19th century as the Age of Emancipation, as an age of...
Invitation from the Society of American Archivists
Call for Nominations: 2016 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award Please help us to recognize the best in our profession! Have you read a great new book about archives? Seen an exceptional new finding aid? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and...
Call for Papers – The Association for Documentary Editing
Call for Papers – The Association for Documentary Editing Celebrate the Vibrancy of Documentary Editing New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-6, 2016 Program Organizers: Jennifer Stertzer, Louis Gallo, Robert Haggard, and Pamela Pierce Deadline for...
NHPRC – Strategic Plan Draft
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has revised its draft of our Strategic Plan and proposed a new mission and vision statement as well as four major goals for the agency: Mission The National Historical Publications and Records Commission...
Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Welcomes Applications for 2016
The Association for Documentary Editing welcomes applications for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to be held 31 July – 4 August 2016 at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Institute for the Editing of Historical...
Call for Nominations for Boydston Award
The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2016 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published anywhere between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2015, the primary focus of which is the editing of a...
Roundtable Discussion on Documentary Editing at this year’s AHA
Documentary editors have long recognized the unique capabilities of the digital edition, which allows for more integrated presentation of metadata as well as greater accessibility for users via the Internet. With the process of creating online editions well...
Assistant or Associate Editor, The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a comprehensive, annotated edition co-sponsored by Yale University and the American Philosophical Society and housed at Yale, seeks an Assistant or Associate Editor to help complete the edition. Of a projected 47 volumes, 41 volumes...
Editorial Associate, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson seeks an Editorial Associate, who will be a key member of a collaborative team of seven full-time professionals preparing the authoritative edition of Jefferson’s papers for publication in print and online. The project’s focus now is...
Job Announcement: Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
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...
