Month: July 2013
Senate Committee Restores Funding for NHPRC
From our friends at the National Coalition for History: “The Senate Financial Services & General Government Subcommittee today passed a FY 14 funding bill that provides $5 million for the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC). NCH had asked for level funding of $4.75 million. However the subcommittee went […]
Search for Lincoln Papers at the National Archives Threatened
The Washington Post reported that the Abraham Lincoln Papers might be forced to cease its search for Lincoln documents at the National Archives, due to funding shortages. The article focuses on the impact that the funding shortage will have on the Lincoln Papers’ Washington team, headed by Assistant Editor David […]
Guide to Documentary Editing, 3rd ed. Released in Open Access Form
News from David Sewell: Following agreement among the ADE Council, the UVA Press, and the book’s authors, the online version of Mary Jo Kline & Susan Holbrook Perdue’s “A Guide to Documentary Editing” (3rd edition) is now available to all as an open-access publication: http://gde.upress.virginia.edu Previously, access was tied to […]