Month: March 2015
Sabra Statham
Sabra Statham, the ADE Liaison Coordinator passed away on March 20, 2015. Sabra had many colleagues in diverse fields: music performance, music history, documentary editing, and libraries. There is a formal obituary that ran in the State College Centre Daily Times and the Charlottesville Daily Progress: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?pid=174457212 Dan Cohen of […]
Editing Institute Announces Participants for 2015
The Association for Documentary Editing announces the roster of participants for the 2015 Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents to be held 13–17 June in Lincoln, Nebraska. The participants will include: Diane Biunno (Project Associate, Historic Images, New Technologies (HINT), Historical Society of Pennsylvania) Mark R. Cheathem (Associate Professor of […]
Job Announcement: Two Research Specialists, Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Two Research Specialists, Papers of Abraham Lincoln The University of Illinois Springfield, Center for State Policy and Leadership is seeking two Research Specialists for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, a long-term documentary editing project dedicated to locating, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during […]
Job Announcement: Chief Historian, U.S. Census Bureau
Chief Historian, U.S. Census Bureau The U.S. Census Bureau — the nation’s leading source of quality information about America’s people, places and economy — is seeking a chief historian. The chief historian will manage a team of other historians in documenting major changes to the nation’s next census and preparing […]
Call for Nominations: ADE President & Councilor-at-Large
The Nominating Committee invites the submission of names for two important offices of the Association for Documentary Editing: President and Councilor-at-Large. Names of potential candidates and rationales for their nomination should be submitted to the committee chair, Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, by 30 March. The President serves for one year as President-Elect, […]
Series Editor, Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society
Series Editor, Adams Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society The Adams Papers documentary editing project at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston seeks a series editor for the Adams Family Correspondence. Since its establishment in 1954, the Adams Papers has published 48 volumes of the diaries, letters, and other writings of the […]
CFP for ADE Session at MLA 2016 in Austin, Texas
Not for Your Eyes: Editing Private Documents for Publication The editing of documents not originally intended for publication poses special challenges. Such documents often are difficult to locate in the first place, and their presentation can be complicated by idiosyncratic features that are essential to their nature but that are […]
Job Opening — Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is a state agency and membership organization that is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The KHS mission is to educate and engage the public through Kentucky history in order to confront the challenges of the future. KHS is seeking an assistant editor […]