Category: News
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award 2023: Call for Nominations
Katy Gehred
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2023. 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 […]
February 2022 ADE Member Events
Katy Gehred
The ADE will host two member events this month through Zoom. These are the first in a series of events to support community engagement and discussion. Event descriptions and access information are noted below. Tuesday February 21st, 12:00pm ET Community Forum: Translating Community Values into Community Action On July 28, […]
New Primary Source Resource for K-12 Teachers
Katy Gehred
The Massachusetts Historical Society has released History Source, a free digital collection of primary source documents from their collection, with intention of promoting the learning of U.S. History. The MHS describes the site as “a free, easy-to-use resource hub for K–12 social studies, ELA, and civics classrooms.”
Project Announcement: The Papers of William Short
Katy Gehred
The Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina announces The Papers of William Short, a born-digital documentary edition focusing on Virginian William Short (1759-1849), who was a U.S. diplomat and fiscal agent in Europe, a successful businessman and philanthropist in the United States, an early advocate of […]
Call for Papers: The Association for Documentary Editing 2023
Katy Gehred
The Association for Documentary Editing 2023 Theme: Modalities of Text and Editing Call for Papers The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will meet in person, for the first time in four years, on June 22–25, 2023. The conference will be held in Washington, DC, and most sessions, streamed live online, […]
Yale University to publish Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition
Katy Gehred
On June 7, Yale University Press will publish Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition, edited by ADE member Robert Pierce Forbes. This is the first edition of Thomas Jefferson’s book to be based on both the 1785 first edition and the original manuscript. Congratulations! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300226874/notes-state-virginia/
American Historical Association (AHA) Call for Proposals
Katy Gehred
As an affiliated society of the American Historical Association, the Association for Documentary Editing is proud to host 1-2 sessions at the annual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2023. We invite all active ADE members to send a proposal for consideration by 25 May 2022 to our AHA affiliate, Sara Georgini: sgeorgini@masshist.org. Please […]
Past ADE President Constance Schulz wins Robert Kelley Memorial Award
Katy Gehred
The National Council of Public History honored past ADE president Constance Schulz with the 2022 Robert Kelley Memorial Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in public history. Per the NCPH announcement: The Robert Kelley Memorial Award Committee is pleased to present this year’s award to a nominee with a long […]
CALL FOR PAPERS: ADE-MLA 2023 CFP open, deadline March 25
Katy Gehred
The Association for Documentary Editing invites submissions for our upcoming guaranteed ADE-MLA session at MLA 2023: New Evidence for Recovering Histories and Texts Considering texts broadly as documentary, artistic, visual, aural, textile, performed, or inhabited, what new kinds and uses of evidence are recovering histories through texts? We especially invite […]
Women Writers Online and Orlando Free during Women’s History Month
Katy Gehred
We’re happy to confirm that Women Writers Online (https://wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/) and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org) will again be free for the month of March, in celebration of Women’s History Month. WWO will be free from 1 March and Orlando from 8 […]