Category: Project news
Publications, new hires, reviews.
Fellowship Announcement: The World of James Monroe Fellow
ADE Website Committee
James Monroe’s Highland is pleased to announce a one-year fellowship for scholars specializing in early America with an interest in transcription/documentary editing, metadata and digital collections. The fellow supports and participates in work related to The World of James Monroe Online (WJMO), a portal that will offer primary resources in […]
NEH Grant Awarded to Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead
ADE Website Committee
We are extremely pleased to announce that that the Critical Edition of Whitehead is now being funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Scholarly Editions and Translations program (see the NEH’s press release and Gonzaga University’s press release). This NEH grant will provide $350,000 over a three-year period starting […]
Pinckney Papers Announces Project Completion
ADE Website Committee
After fifteen years of editorial work supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Pinckney Papers Projects are now completed, bringing to scholars and the general public a selective edition of the papers of an important early national South Carolina family. […]
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 […]
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 […]
NEH Awards Grant for a Federated Digital Resource of Early Weather and Climate Records
Katy Gehred
In January, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant of $44,570 to support collaborative planning by the University of Virginia’s Center for Digital Editing (CDE), the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society (APS), and the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton […]
The Pinckney Papers Project Publishes New Volume
Katy Gehred
The editors at the Pinckney Papers Projects are delighted to announce to the editing community the release/publication by the University of Virginia Press of Volume 3 of the Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen “Experienced Statesmen in War, Politics, & Diplomacy (1799–1811).” This 550-document volume of our born digital edition, part […]
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 […]
Announcing the Publication of Thomas Jefferson’s Weather and Climate Records
Katy Gehred
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University and the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia announce the publication of the Jefferson Weather & Climate Records (https://jefferson-weather-records.org), a digital resource created from the meteorological observations meticulously recorded by Thomas Jefferson for nearly half a century. Jefferson began […]
John Dickinson Writings Project Publishes First Volume
Katy Gehred
The staff of the John Dickinson Writings Project and the University of Delaware Press/University of Virginia Press are very pleased to announce the publication of Volume One of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, ed. Jane E. Calvert. In 1801, John Dickinson published a two-volume edition containing 14 […]