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...
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African Americans
Viola Muse Digital Edition
The Viola Muse Digital Edition (VMDE) presents the notes and drafts prepared by Viola B. Muse (1898-1981), who worked from 1936 through 1939 as an interviewer and writer in the Negro Writers Unit...
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approximately 63 years and comprising some 58,000 items including correspondence, sermons, speeches, and unpublished writings....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The ADE brings historical documents to life by helping editors preserve, interpret, and share important records from the past with the public.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
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...
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...
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...
Papers of James Monroe hiring four new full-time professional staff members
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded to the University of Mary Washington a grant of just under $3,000,000...
