Echoes in the First Person
Echoes in the First Person is a narrative documentary‑editing podcast that restores overlooked historical figures to the center of their own stories through first‑person performance, archival...
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coloniaLab
coloniaLab is a workshop for the collaborative editing of manuscripts and rare books related to early Latin America. We seek to produce accurate and accessible versions, and we also reflect on...
Harriet Jacobs Papers
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by UNC Press in 2008, is a two‑volume annotated collection offering nearly 300 primary source documents from over 900 discovered items relating to Harriet Jacobs, her activist brother John S....
Letters of Florence Kelley
This collection presents the writings of Florence Kelley, a prominent reformer and social justice advocate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally published by University of Illinois Press, the letters—edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Beverly Wilson...
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, initiated in 1985 at Stanford University with Coretta Scott King’s invitation to historian Clayborne Carson, is a comprehensive documentary editing enterprise. Its mission is to publish a fourteen-volume authoritative...
Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Papers
The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. is an extensive documentary editing project focused on the legacy of Clarence M. Mitchell Jr., often referred to as “the 101st U.S. Senator.” Mitchell served as the chief lobbyist for the NAACP from the 1940s through the 1970s,...
Race and Slavery Petitions Project
The Race & Slavery Petitions project, part of the Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) at UNC Greensboro, is a searchable database derived from extensive research spanning 18 years. It aggregates data from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court...
Howard Thurman Papers
The Howard Thurman Papers Project, founded in 1992, aims to preserve and share the lifelong documentary record of Howard Thurman—spanning approximately 63 years and comprising some 58,000 items including correspondence, sermons, speeches, and unpublished writings....
The Association for Documentary Editing
The ADE brings historical documents to life by helping editors preserve, interpret, and share important records from the past with the public.
Recent Posts
Scholarly Editing Micro-edition Wins Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History
Congratulations to Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, Brendan Allen, and Raffaele Viglianti,* who have been named the recipients of the...
Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African...
Model Editions Partnership
Dear ADE Community, The ADE leadership has received an inquiry about whether members of the community still use the website of...
ADE Quarterly Members’ Forum: Funding of Editing and Recovery Projects
The Association for Documentary Editing will host a virtual member forum on Wednesday, October 21, at 1–2 PM EDT (UTC–4), on the...
