Journals of Caroline Healey Dall
The Massachusetts Historical Society’s digital edition of Caroline Dall’s journals presents a deeply personal and politically engaged record of 19th-century American life. Dall was a prominent...
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The Mary Baker Eddy Papers
The Mary Baker Eddy Papers project offers digitized access to the correspondence, sermons, and personal writings of the founder of Christian Science. Housed at the Mary Baker Eddy Library, this...
Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers is a comprehensive documentary-editing project hosted by the University of Maryland. It collects, annotates, and publishes the correspondence, speeches, and records of Samuel Gompers (1850–1924), a pivotal figure in American labor history...
Pedagogues and Protesters: The Harvard College Student Diary of Stephen Peabody, 1767-1768
Pedagogues & Protesters is an edited edition of the journal kept by Stephen Peabody, a student of Harvard’s class of 1769, documenting the college year of 1767–1768. Written as daily entries, Peabody's diary provides a fascinating first-person account of colonial...
Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
This critical documentary edition offers a chronological and thematic selection of the writings of Stanton and Anthony, major leaders of the 19th-century women’s rights movement. The volumes draw from correspondence, speeches, and organizational records, detailing...
The John Dickinson Writings Project
The John Dickinson Writings Project, directed by Dr. Jane E. Calvert, is dedicated to collecting, editing, and publishing the writings of John Dickinson, an influential Founding Father of the United States. The project aims to provide comprehensive access to...
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...
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,...
Frederick Douglass Papers
The Frederick Douglass Papers Project collects, edits, and publishes the writings of Frederick Douglass—including speeches, letters, autobiographies, and newspaper contributions—in both printed volumes and an online database. The online collection, hosted alongside...
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...
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.
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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...
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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...
