Category: News
Call for Papers – Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA
Katy Gehred
The 115th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Reckoning with the Past: Naming, Memorializing, and Remembering August 10-12, 2022 Portland State University Portland, OR The 2022 Program Committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on any subject, but particularly those addressing the […]
Virtual Event: 2021 SNAC Annual Meeting
Kathryn Blizzard
The SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) Operations Committee is pleased to announce the 2021 SNAC Annual Meeting. Details are as follows: Date: September 29 and 30, 2021 Times: September 29, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; September 30, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (East Coast Time) Meeting Platform: All-virtual via Zoom Registration Information (please register in […]
Grant Opportunity from the British Columbia History Digitization Program
Katy Gehred
A new partnership between the BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC) at the University of British Columbia Library will offer vital support to prospective BC History Digitization Program (BCHDP) grant applicants seeking to bring their unique collections online. The BC ELN-BCHDP Support […]
Call for Proposals: National Council on Public History
Katy Gehred
ADE members might be interested in submitting a proposal to the National Council on Public History (NCPH)’s 2022 conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The theme for the event is “Crossroads.” Being at the crossroads allows us to reckon with the past while seeking solutions for repair and contributing to a […]
News from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC)
Katy Gehred
The NHPRC has just released the list of projects that have been awarded funding at their May 2021 spring meeting. Congratulations to all the ADE members – and other editors – who have been awarded funding for their projects! Click here to see the full list of projects. The NHPRC […]
IEHD Graduate Publishes Collection of Historical Logbooks
Katy Gehred
Catherine Schmitt, Science Communication Specialist at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and a participant in the 2017 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (IEHD), has successfully edited and published a collection of historical records. “Summers of Science and Wonder: The Champlain Society Logbooks 1880-1882” features the summer […]
The School of Advanced Study Online Course: Introduction to TEI
Katy Gehred
The School of Advanced Study, University of London, is offering a short workshop that will introduce the use of TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML for marking up literary and historical texts and critical editions. Delivered online via a mix of asynchronous video tutorials and brief live sessions on 17, 19, […]
The Whitehead Research Project Publishes New Volume
Katy Gehred
In January 2021 the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead published volume 2 of its intended 6 volume collection of the complete, collected published works and previously unpublished lectures, papers, and correspondence of Alfred North Whitehead, one of the 20th century’s most original and significant philosophers. […]
Correspondence of James K. Polk: Final Volume Published
Katy Gehred
The University of Tennessee Press has published the fourteenth and final volume of the Correspondence of James K. Polk. Covering April 1848 to June 1849, it features letters from the last months of his presidency and of his life. It culminates over six decades of work by forty-three faculty, staff, and […]
Call For Papers for MLA 2022: Editing Outside the Walls
Katy Gehred
Scholarly editing has grown in scope and diversified into many fields of practice in recent years, including many intellectual projects in a variety of settings outside the traditional domains of documentary editing. These digital humanities projects and other publications have changed the scope and context of editorial practices, sometimes without […]