Category: ADE
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award 2021: Call for Nominations
Katy Gehred
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2021. 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 service. Both senior and early-career scholars are eligible, as […]
Call for Contributions: Special Section of Scholarly Editing
Katy Gehred
Call for Contributions: Special Section of Scholarly Editing Issue 39–Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record Editing primary sources for publication has extensive origins in multiple disciplines, as is evident from the membership of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), which includes both historians and literary scholars in the United States […]
Call For Nominations
Katy Gehred
The ADE nominating committee seeks advice, informal suggestions, and formal nominations of candidates for the offices of President-Elect, Secretary, and Councilor-at-Large. You may forward your suggestions to Ben Huggins, Committee Chair, at blh5a@virginia.edu or to any other members of the committee (listed at the end of this announcement). The deadline […]
Boydston Essay Prize, 2020-21
Katy Gehred
The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2020-21 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2019, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award […]
Winners of the Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize for 2020 and 2021
Katy Gehred
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is proud to announce the winners of the Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize for 20/21: Manaswini Ramkumar, a PhD candidate in International Relations and an adjunct faculty member of the School of International Service at American University, Washington, DC; and William A. Taylor, Associate Professor […]
ADE Cosigns AHA Statement on Capitol Riots
Katy Gehred
The ADE Council has voted to support a statement by the American Historical Association condemning the invasion of the U.S. Capitol, and the resulting violence against our key government institution. The statement can be accessed here: https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/aha-advocacy/ransacking-democracy-statement-(january-2021)
Call for Applicants: Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize, 2020-21
Katy Gehred
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) invites applications for its annual prize to documentary editors and students at midpoint of a project heavily dependent on documentary editing and document sources. Preference is given to persons working on women in uniformed military service or in various military support services (such as the USO) […]
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln Seeks Two Assistant Editors
Katy Gehred
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln seeks two assistant editors. The assistant editor performs editorial, technical, and administrative tasks related to the ongoing work of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents […]
The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. seek an Assistant Editor
Katy Gehred
The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr., at SUNY College at Old Westbury seek an Assistant Editor. Project Description: The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Project, a nine-volume historical documentary edition, is seeking an assistant editor to continue work on completing in print and digitally the final three volumes. The project […]
Call for Technical Editor
Erica Cavanaugh
The Association for Documentary Editing is reviving the premier journal Scholarly Editing. The following is its new mission statement: Scholarly Editing is an open-access journal committed to the development and advancement of all aspects of textual editing, including documentary editing. The content published in the journal includes essays, micro editions, reviews of print […]