Month: October 2015
Job Announcement: Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project publishes The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., the definitive edition of King’s most historically significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts. The Project seeks a full-time research assistant to support and facilitate the publication of the documentary editions of the King Papers […]
Call for nominations: Julian P. Boyd Award
The Julian P. Boyd Award committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award for 2016. The award is presented every three years by the Association for Documentary Editing to a senior scholar in honor of a distinguished contribution to the study of American history and culture. The ADE’s highest […]
Butterfield Award Nominations
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award committee solicits nominations for a recipient of the award in 2016. This award is presented annually by the Association for Documentary Editing to an individual, editorial project, or institution for notable contributions in the areas of documentary publication, teaching, or service. Nominations should be made […]
Third and final volume of Autobiography of Mark Twain published!
October sees the publication of the third and final volume of Autobiography of Mark Twain, chronicling the author’s inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. Created from March 1907 to December 1909, these dictations present Mark Twain at the end of […]
Final Volume of Robinson Jeffers’s Correspondence Published
The third and final volume Robinson Jeffers’s correspondence was published by Stanford University Press in August, along with a revised edition of the biographical introduction from Volume One. The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers, Volume Three: 1940–1962 http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24034 Robinson Jeffers: Poet and Prophet http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24035 […]