The Lyman H. Butterfield Award 2021: Call for Nominations
Katy Gehred
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2021. 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 […]
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published volume 2 of its intended 6 volume collection of the complete, collected published works and previously unpublished lectures, papers, and correspondence of Alfred North Whitehead, one of the 20th century’s most original and significant philosophers.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 […]
Internship Opportunity with the Theodore Roosevelt Center
Katy Gehred
Remote Digital Cataloging and Review/History Internships The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University is seeking interns to participate in the cataloging of historical documents in the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library.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 […]
The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Seeks an Assistant or Associate Editor
Katy Gehred
The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) at American University seeks to hire an assistant or associate editor for the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. This documentary editing project aims to locate and publish, in print and online, the letters written by or to the twelfth and […]
Call for Contributions: Special Section of Scholarly Editing
Katy Gehred
Call for Contributions: Special Section of Scholarly Editing Issue 39–Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record Editing primary sources for publication has extensive origins in multiple disciplines, as is evident from the membership of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), which includes both historians and literary scholars in the United States […]
Educational Opportunities in Digital Scholarly Editing
Katy Gehred
The Institute of English Studies (the IES) is offering two opportunities that might be of interest to ADE members. Dr. Christopher Ohge, a lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the IES, is offering an online short course on Digital Scholarly Editing from 3-7 May 2021. The course will survey […]
Call For Nominations
Katy Gehred
The ADE nominating committee seeks advice, informal suggestions, and formal nominations of candidates for the offices of President-Elect, Secretary, and Councilor-at-Large. You may forward your suggestions to Ben Huggins, Committee Chair, at blh5a@virginia.edu or to any other members of the committee (listed at the end of this announcement). The deadline […]
The North Carolina Civil War Roster Project Seeks a Historian/Editor
Katy Gehred
The Historical Research Office of the North Carolina Office of Archives & History seeks to hire a historian/editor for the NC Civil War Roster Project. This work is an inventory of the state’s Confederate and United States troops which first went to press in 1966 and is currently in its […]