The Lyman H. Butterfield Award 2022: Call for Nominations
Katy Gehred
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2022. 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 are projects and institutions. The award is granted in memoriam […]
Death of Jennifer Steenshorne
Paul B. Israel
It is with deep sadness that I announce the death of our friend and colleague Jenn Steenshorne who has died from Covid-19. Many of you knew her as an an editor of the John Jay Papers at Columbia University and for her many years as the Association’s director of publications. […]
NEH Summer Institute
Katy Gehred
Dr. Sandra Harbert Petrulionis invites applications (deadline 1 March 2022) for the NEH Summer Institute “Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau,” a two-week residential program based in Concord, Massachusetts, June 26-July 9, 2022. It is sponsored by the Thoreau Society, with funding from […]
Invitation to Nominate Candidates for the ADE Council
Katy Gehred
The ADE nominating committee seeks advice, informal suggestions, and formal nominations of candidates for the offices of President-Elect, Treasurer, Director of Publications, and Councilor-at-Large. Self-nominations are also welcome. In making suggestions, please be sure you have received assurances from nominees of their willingness to serve. You may forward your suggestions […]
Call for Papers: Machine Learning and Data Mining for Digital Scholarly Editions
Katy Gehred
University of Rostock, 9-10 June 2022 In several areas of the Digital Humanities, Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques are increasingly applied and discussed, for example for the processing and extraction of information from digital images that represent humanistic sources, or for the analysis of full texts that are relevant […]
London Rare Book School: Online Course in Digital Scholarly Editing
Katy Gehred
There are still spaces available in the introduction to Digital Scholarly Editing online short course at the London Rare Books School. It runs from 17–19 November. Bookings can be made here. This 3-day online short course on Digital Scholarly Editing surveys the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual […]
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 […]
Call for Nominations: Julian P. Boyd Award
Katy Gehred
First presented in 1981, the Julian P. Boyd Award commemorates Boyd’s commitment to excellence and the breadth of his scholarly interests. The Boyd Award is given every three years to a senior scholar in honor of distinguished contributions to the study of American history and culture. For more information about […]
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: The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Project, a nine-volume historical documentary edition, is seeking an assistant editor to continue work on completing in print and digitally the final three volumes. […]
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 […]