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 […]
Remote Digital Cataloging and Review/History Internships
Katy Gehred
The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University is seeking interns to participate in the cataloging of historical documents in the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. The goal of the Center is to serve scholars, tourists, teachers, curious citizens, and students of all ages as they explore the life and achievement […]
ADE Presentation at Virtual AHA Conference
Katy Gehred
Apologies for the short notice, but editors may be interested to know that four ADE members will be presenting a joint session of the American Historical Association and the ADE at 11 AM EST TODAY [23 February] during the virtual AHA conference. Titled “The Editor as Historian; the Historian as […]
Scholarly Editing Call for Reviews
Katy Gehred
Do you have a new documentary editing project? Let us know! We currently seek material to review in Volume 40 of Scholarly Editing, which will be published in 2022. Scholarly Editing reviews letterpress and digital editions, digital projects, and the digital tools that enhance the recovery of, and expand access […]
Job Announcement: Assistant Editor at the Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
Katy Gehred
Assistant Editor The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr., and the NAACP Washington Bureau, SUNY College at Old Westbury Project Description: Clarence Mitchell, Jr., was to the NAACP’s legislative struggle what Thurgood Marshall was to the NAACP’s legal struggle, the defining and inspirational strategist and leader whose mission was to uphold […]
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 […]
Call for Applications: NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Katy Gehred
The University of Pittsburgh is pleased to invite applications to an NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities for summer 2022 entitled “Advanced digital editing: modeling the text and making the edition”. The target audience for this two-week, in-person workshop is textual scholars who are already comfortable editing […]
Call for Nominations: Boydston Essay Prize 2021-2022
Katy Gehred
The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2021-22 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between January 1 and December 31 2020, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award carries […]
Tribute to Jenn Steenshorne by Robb Haberman
Katy Gehred
This tribute to our late colleague Jennifer Steenshorne, by ADE treasurer and longtime Papers of John Jay editor Robb Haberman, was first published by the Columbia University Libraries. We thank Elizabeth Nuxoll for bringing it to our attention. The John Jay Papers Project, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and Columbia […]
National Humanities Alliance Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day
Katy Gehred
Registration is now open for the 2022 National Humanities Alliance Virtual Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day, to be held on March 14th & 15th. Each year, the NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day present the prime opportunity for members of the Association for Documentary Editing to engage with […]