Month: January 2016
REMINDER: Butterfield Award Nominations
REMINDER: 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 […]
Online Access to “Correspondence of James K. Polk”
The James K. Polk Project, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pleased to announce that all twelve published volumes of the “Correspondence of James K. Polk” are now available online. This open-access edition, published by Newfound Press, makes important primary-source documents on the politics, diplomacy, economics, science, and culture […]
The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris – the project’s first volume online
The Papers of Gouverneur Morris is pleased to announce that Rotunda, the University of Virginia Press’ digital imprint, has published the project’s first volume online (The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris: European Travels, 1794-1798) as part of the American Founding Era Collection. This volume went up at the same time as Beatrix Davenport’s edition […]
Upcoming symposium: Jefferson Davis’s America: Perspectives on the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States
February 19-20, 2016, Rice University In 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois pointed to Jefferson Davis as “a representative of civilization” as it had developed over the previous century. Scholars have often remembered the 19th century as the Age of Emancipation, as an age of liberal nation-building or even as […]
Invitation from the Society of American Archivists
Call for Nominations: 2016 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award Please help us to recognize the best in our profession! Have you read a great new book about archives? Seen an exceptional new finding aid? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new […]
Call for Papers – The Association for Documentary Editing
Call for Papers – The Association for Documentary Editing Celebrate the Vibrancy of Documentary Editing New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-6, 2016 Program Organizers: Jennifer Stertzer, Louis Gallo, Robert Haggard, and Pamela Pierce Deadline for Proposals: March 31, 2016 The Association for Documentary Editing announces its annual conference to be held at […]