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Past Award Recipients

Julian P. Boyd Award | Lyman H. Butterfield Award | Distinguished Service Award
Boydston Essay Prize | Life Service Award | Resolutions of Appreciation and Thanks

Julian P. Boyd Award

2010 - John Kaminski
2007 - Gary E. Moulton, editor of the Journals of Lewis and Clark. A former editor of the Papers of the Cherokee Chief John Ross and the "Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," he also compiled an abridged, single-volume edition of the journals entitled The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (2003). He also has served as treasurer of the Association for Documentary Editing.
2004 - Barbara B. Oberg, a professor at Princeton University and general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. A former editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale University, she is co-author, with Doron Ben-Atar, of Federalists Reconsidered (1998) and, with Harry S. Stout, of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture (1993). The immediate past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, she also served as president of the Association for Documentary Editing.
2001 - William W. Abbott, editor emeritus of the Papers of George Washington and a founding father of the ADE, for his prodigious and excellent work in editing The Papers of George Washington, ten-volume Colonial Series (1983-1995), six-volume Confederation Series (1992-1997); and the four-volume Retirement Series (1998-1999).
1998 - John Y. Simon, editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, has shepherded over ten thousand documents into publication since 1967. His other publications include The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant and more than a hundred articles and essays in professional journals and published collections.
1995 - David R. Chesnutt, in recognition for his lifetime contribution to understanding the American past through documentary editing as teacher, mentor and scholar. He is the senior editor of The Papers of Henry Laurens and project director of the Model Editions Partnership.
1992 - Jo Ann Boydston, editor of the thirty-seven volume Collected Works of John Dewey and president of the ADE, 1984-85.
1989 - Louis R. Harlan, distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland at College Park and co-editor of The Booker T. Washington Papers, Harlan also is a recipient of the Beveridge Award, the Bancroft Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for his biography, Booker T. Washington.
1986 - Fredson Bowers, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia, Bowers began his career as a scholar of Renaissance and Restoration drama, then in 1955 published an edition of Walt Whitman's manuscripts, successfully making the transition to American literature. He later edited editions of Stephen Crane and William James, and produced many essays on the principles and procedures of editing.
1983 - Harold C. Syrett, for his distinguished contribution to American history and culture through his editing of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton from the project's inception in 1955 through its completion in 1979.
1981 - Arthur S. Link was editor and director of the Papers of Woodrow Wilson, his crowning scholarly achievement. He also published a multivolume biography of Woodrow Wilson, and an article on the survival of Progressivism in the 1920s that forced a historical reconsideration of that decade.

Lyman H. Butterfield Award

2012 - Michael Stevens
2011 - Beverly Wilson Palmer
2010 - Helen Deese
2009 - Gregg L. Lint
2008 - Mary-Jo Kline
2007 - Beth Luey
2006 - Mary Hackett, Associate Editor of the Papers of James Madison, for her eighteen years of dedicated service and scholarly understanding in the editing and publishing of four volumes in the Secretary of State Series of the Madison Papers.
2005 - no award made.
2004 - Ken Bowling for the recent publication of three volumes of the Papers of the First Federal Congress. He has also served the field of scholarly editing through his work on Washington History, the Journal of the Early Republic and numerous ADE Committees.
2003 - Ron Bosco, for his scholarly editing in the field of Colonial and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. He is also regarded as the leading editor of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
2002 - C. James Taylor, currently editor in chief of the Adams Papers, for his over twenty years at the Henry Laurens Papers which completed its final volume in 2002 and his five years as editor of Documentary Editing.
2001 - Margot Backus for her twenty years of dedicated service to scholarly editors on behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
2000 - Elaine Forman Crane for her landmark edition of the Elizabeth Drinker diary, celebrated for intellectual depth, scholarly impact, and educational value. These volumes will stand the test of time and are already a testimony to the lasting legacy and impact of volumes well edited and a project well run.
1999 - Mary Gallagher and Betty Nuxoll for the completion of the Robert Morris Papers.
1998 - Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., of the Centennial Edition of the Writings of Frank Norris, in recognition of his achievements in textual and bibliographic studies and editing and his generosity in service to the profession.
1997 - Massachusetts Historical Society, which, since 1792, has published historical documents in order to preserve and circulate them for the benefit of researchers. In 1990 the Society completed its edition in sixty-five volumes of the Journals of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1715-1779, and its ambitious plan, launched in 1954, to edit the Adams Papers has resulted in thirty-six volumes to date.
1996 - Ann Gordon, editor of the Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at Rutgers University, for bringing a public profile to documentary editing, lending her expertise to events commemorating the anniversary of Women's Suffrage.
1995 - Joel Myerson, an English professor at the University of South Carolina and editor of Studies in the American Renaissance, was the first literary editor to win the award.
1994 - Eugene R. Sheridan, for his work with the Letters of Delegates to Congress project and as senior associate editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. He also edited Congress at Princeton: Being the Letters of Charles Thomson to Hannah Thomson, June-October 1783.
1993 - Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, for setting an example of excellence in editing.
1992 - Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, edited by Robert A. Hill and Barbara J. Bair and published by the University of California Press.
1991 - Yale University Press, in recognition of the Press's long and distinguished record of publishing editions such as the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the Papers of Charles Willson Peale, and the Frederick Douglass Papers.
1990 - David R. Chesnutt, editor of the Papers of Henry Laurens at the University of South Carolina, for his selfless service to the profession and to the ADE as president-elect.
1989 - Sharon Ritenour Stevens, associate editor of the George C. Marshall Papers and editor of Documentary Editing from 1983 to 1989, guiding the expansion and development of the journal from its early incarnation as the ADE's newsletter.
1988 - Paul H. Smith, editor of the Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, for his early devotion to the defining and funding of the Letters project and to the outstanding editorial leadership he provided.
1987 - David W. Hirst, senior associate editor of The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, to which he has given over 30 years of service, helping to edit over 60 volumes.
1986 - The Papers of George Washington, for its exemplary role in the publication of outstanding volumes in a timely fashion.
1985 - Johns Hopkins University Press, in recognition of its commitment to the publication of documentary editions and for the support that the press has given to the six editions under its wing.

Distinguished Service Awards

2007 - Philander D. Chase for his long service to the ADE, including serving as Treasurer (1994-97), his "Guide to Planning the Annual Meeting," his report on "Institutional Relationships and Support of Documentary Editing Projects," and his dedication to lobbying Congress for sufficient funding of the NEH and NHPRC.
2005 - Martha J. King, Associate Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, for serving as chair of the publications committee, moderator of SEDIT-L, and chair of the travel funds committee.
2003 - Cathy Moran Hajo for her exceptional service as chair of the Technology and Electronic Standards Committee, and her work in establishing the ADE's Electronic Standard.
2002 - Beth Luey her years as editor of Documentary Editing.
2001 - Mark Mastromarino for serving as author/compiler of the Recent Editions feature of Documentary Editing.
2000 - Ann Gordon, editor of the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and Associate Research Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for chairing last year's meetings and arranging for a presidential address and providing leadership through this year's NEH proposed policy changes, local arrangements and hotel challenges for the 2000 annual meeting.
1999 - Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., Associate Editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, for serving as the ADE webmaster since its inception in 1995 and for serving as a filter for various Councils and committees regarding electronic initiatives within the ADE.
1998 - Kevin Hayes, of the University of Central Oklahoma, in recognition of his dedicated service to the ADE as its bibliography editor for over six years.
Joyce Appleby, Charlene Bickford, Theresa Collins, Charles T. Cullen, Linda Kerber, Page Putnam Miller, Leslie Rowland, Ray Smock, for their leadership, commitment, and fortitude during a year of struggle over federal policy.
1997 - Jim Taylor, for his four years service as editor of Documentary Editing.
1995 - Dick Sheldon, for twenty years of dedicated service to the profession. He also supervised Camp Edit from 1979 through 1995.
1994 - Roger Bruns, for the guidance on matters having to do with the theory and practice of documentary editing that he has unstintingly provided to numerous editorial projects.
1993 - Dorothy Porter Wesley, a pioneer in the preservation of African-American history sources. She served on the NHPRC's Special Advisory Committee on the Publications of the Papers of Blacks as well as the District of Columbia Historical Records Advisory Board.
1991 - Mary A. Giunta, director and editor of the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1781-1790, a documentary editing project administered by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
1990 - John P. Kaminski, co-editor of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin. He served as secretary-treasurer from 1982 to 1985 and as president, 1986-1987, of the ADE.
1989 - Elizabeth S. Hughes, senior associate editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower at the Johns Hopkins University, Hughes served as secretary-treasurer of the ADE from 1985 to 1988.
1988 - Frank G. Burke, professor of library science at the University of Maryland, was former director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and was influential in the founding of the ADE.
1987 - Mary-Jo Kline, a vice-president of Sotheby Parke-Bernet, specializing in early American manuscripts. Author of A Guide to Documentary Editing, Kline also edited The Political Correspondence and Public Papers of Aaron Burr, and was an editor on the John Jay Papers and the Adams Papers projects.
1986 - Sharon R. Ritenour, for her work as assistant editor of the George C. Marshall Papers and three years as editor of Documentary Editing.
Joel Myerson, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, for his work in obtaining affiliated status for the ADE with the Modern Language Association, and for his committee work within the ADE since its inception.
Raymond W. Smock, historian of the Office of the Bicentennial of the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of the ADE's founding fathers, for his continued service and leadership on the Council.
1985 - Charles T. Cullen & David R. Chesnutt, to acknowledge the assistance that they provided to other editors making the transition to new computer/ word processing technology.
1983 - John Y. Simon, former president of the ADE and editor of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale, for his efforts to promote the cause of documentary editing not only through his work but in testimony before Congress.
1981 - Charlene Bickford & Michael Richman, co-chairs of the Coalition to Save Our Documentary Heritage, for their outstanding efforts to keep members informed about federal actions affecting documentary editing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, former executive director of NHPC, in recognition of his fostering interest in documentary editing.

Boydston Essay Prize

2009 - Ronald Broude for his article, "The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition and the Full Scores that Never Were," TEXTUAL CULTURES 3.2 (2008)
2007 - Raymond Stephanson for his essay, "Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope and the Curious Case of Modern Scholarship and the Vanishing Text," Eighteenth-Century Life 31.1 (Winter 2007).
2005 - Tim William Machan, "The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 1: Corpus Christie College Oxford MS 201 (F), ed. Robert Adams, Hoyt N. Duggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna III, John Price-Wilkin, and Thorlac Turville-Petre; The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 2: Cambridge Trinity College MSB.15.17 (W), ed. Thorlac Turville-Petre and Hoyt Duggan. SEENET, University of Michigan Press, 1999 and 2000," TEXT 16 (2006): 400-405
2005 - Paul Eggert, "These Post-Philological Days.... D.C. Greetham. Theories of the Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999," TEXT 15 (2003): 323-336.
2003 - Dayton W. Haskin for "No Edition Is an Island: The Place of Nineteenth-Century American Editions within the History of Editing Donne's Poems," TEXT 14 (2002): 169-207.
2001 - Peter Shillingsburg for the review of various works published in The Academy Editions of Australian Literature series and the Colonial Texts Series, which appeared in TEXT 12 (1999): 264-273; and Marta Werner, for her review of The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin, Variorum Edition, 3 vols., Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, which appeared in TEXT 12 (1999): 255-263.
1999 - Ronald A Bosco, Distinguished Service Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany and an editor of the Emerson Papers at the Houghton Library of Harvard University, for his review "The Expanding Textual Circle of New England Transcendentalism" in volume 11 of Text.
1997 - Dale Kramer, for "The Compositor as Copy-Text," a review of George Eliot's Romola, edited by Andrew Brown. The review appeared in volume 9 of Text.
1995 - George Geckle, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, for his review of three editions of Dr. Faustus in volume 7 of Text.

Life Service Award

2011 - Sharon Ritenour Stevens
2009 - Richard Leffler
2007 - John P. Kaminski
2004 - Charlene Bickford, read more from Documentary Editing (Winter 2004, Vol. 26, No. 4).

Resolutions of Appreciation, Thanks, and Commendation

1999 - The Model Editions Partnership Project Director, David Chesnutt, Co-Coordinators Susan Hockey and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and the Partnership Steering Committee
1999 - The American Historical Association
1997 - The Organization of American Historians
1996 - Charles Cullen
1995 - Reese Jenkins
1992 - Matthew Hodgson
1990 - Representative Lindy Boggs
1983 - Certain Members of the U.S. Congress
1980 - Charles Hobson and John Y. Simon
1979 - Julian Boyd