Editing Institute Announces Graduation Speaker for 2014

The Association for Documentary Editing announces the graduation speaker for the 2014 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 20–24 July in Louisville, Kentucky. The graduation speaker will be Timothy Connelly. Tim Connelly is Director for Publications, Retired, at the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). […]

OAH Revises Standards for Contingent Employment of History Faculty

Thanks to Ann D. Gordon’s suggestions, the Organization of American Historians Committee on Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Employment revised its standards to include non-teaching positions, such as editing. These changes were recently approved by the OAH Council and will appear on its website soon, but in the meantime, here is […]

Editing Institute Announces Participants for 2014

The Association for Documentary Editing announces the roster of participants for the 2014 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 20–24 July in Louisville, Kentucky. The participants will include: Jeanne M. Alexander (Assistant Editor, Hemingway Letters Project, Pennsylvania State University) Dave Beals (Research Assistant, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, […]

New (Revised) NHPRC Grant Programs

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has approved new (revised) grant programs; see http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/. Of particular interest to documentary editors is the grant category for Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/editions.html. The Association for Documentary Editing appreciates the hard work and cooperative spirit of the members of the Commission, including […]

Assistant or Associate Editor, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson in the History Department at Princeton University seeks an Assistant or Associate Editor to join its staff. Under the direction of General Editor James P. McClure and in partnership with Princeton University Press, the project’s team of editors is preparing the full, authoritative, printed and […]