Invitation to Nominate Candidates for the ADE Council

Dear colleagues, The ADE Nominating Committee seeks advice, informal suggestions, and formal nominations of candidates for the offices of President-Elect, Treasurer, Director of Publications, Secretary, and Councilor-at-Large. In making suggestions, please be sure you have received assurances from nominees of their willingness to serve. You may forward your suggestions to […]

CFP for “Editing the ‘I’” session at MLA 2020

Jerome McGann famously said, “When you edit, you change.” The Association for Documentary Editing invites proposals for a guaranteed session on editing first-person nonfiction narratives for MLA 2020 in Seattle. How might McGann’s statement pertain to preparing first-person documents (other than correspondence) for public consumption in print or other media? […]

Job Announcement: Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project

Associate Editor (4018U) About Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s most iconic teaching and research institutions. Since 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world. Berkeley’s culture of openness, freedom and […]

Job Announcement: Assistant Editor, The Papers of Andrew Jackson

The University of Tennessee-Knoxville seeks a Research Assistant Professor of History to serve as Assistant Editor on The Papers of Andrew Jackson.  The Jackson project is producing a comprehensive edition of Jackson’s papers in seventeen bound volumes and two digital iterations.  Volume XI, covering the presidential year 1833, is now […]

Call for Nominations: Julian P. Boyd Award

The Julian P. Boyd Award Committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award for 2019. The award is presented every three years by the Association for Documentary Editing to a senior scholar in honor of distinguished contributions to the study of American history and culture. The ADE’s highest award, […]

Job Posting: Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, Editorial Assistant

Editorial Assistant Vacancy — Closes Feb. 8, 2019 The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) seeks an Editorial Assistant to join the staff of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK). This nationally recognized digital humanities project that locates and publishes new stories about everyday Kentuckians navigating an unprecedented […]

Job Announcement: Associate Editor, Publications Department, Massachusetts Historical Society

Associate Editor, Publications Department The Massachusetts Historical Society seeks a full-time Associate Editor to work in its Publications Department. An independent research library and major repository of American manuscript materials, the Society was founded in 1791 to collect, preserve, and make available resources for the study of American history. The […]

Job Announcement: Editorial Assistant, Adams Papers & Publications Departments, Massachusetts Historical Society

Description The Massachusetts Historical Society seeks a full-time Editorial Assistant to work with its Adams Papers and Publications departments. An independent research library and major repository of American manuscript materials, the Society was founded in 1791 to collect, preserve, and make available resources for the study of American history. Since […]

Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Welcomes Applications for 2019

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications to the 48th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (IEHD) to be held on the campus of Princeton University, June 16–20, 2019. Click here to apply by the February 1, 2019 deadline, or […]

Job Announcement: Assistant or Associate Editor, The Einstein Papers Project, California Institute of Technology

Assistant or Associate Editor The Einstein Papers Project in the Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology seeks an Assistant or Associate Editor to join its staff. In partnership with Princeton University Press, the project’s international team of editors is preparing the authoritative printed […]