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Major Guides to Documentary Editing

  • Mary Jo Kline, A Guide to Documentary Editing, 3rd. ed. (Johns Hopkins, 1998)
  • Michael E. Stevens and Steven B. Burg, Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Practice (Altamira Press, 1997)
  • Beth Luey, ed. Editing Documents and Texts: An Annotated Bibliography (Madison House, 1990)
  • Scholarly Editing
  • Documentary Editing

General Articles on Historical Editing

  • Lester Cappon, “A Rationale for Historical Editing Past and Present,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. 23 (1966): 56-75.
  • Laura Miller Coles, “‘Two Souls with but a Single Thought’?– The Evolving Relationship Between Archivists and Editors,” Documentary Editing, 16:2 (June 1994): 43-46, 50.
  • Philip B. Eppard, “The Archivist’s Perspective: Implications for Documentary Editing.” Documentary Editing 16:2 (June 1994): 47-50.
  • Barbara Oberg, “Documentary Editing as a Collaborative Enterprise: Theirs, Mine, or Ours?” Documentary Editing 16:1 (March 1994): 5-9.
  • Constance B. Schultz, “Do Archivists Need to Know How to be Editors? A Proposal for the Role of Documentary Editing in Graduate Archival Education” Documentary Editing 17:1 (March 1995): 1-5.

Defining and Organizing Documentary Editions

  • Herbert S. Bailey, Jr. “Einstein’s Collected Papers: Planning and Development,” Scholarly Publishing 20 (July 1989): 202-17.
  • Patricia G. Holland, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Reconstructing the Record,” Documentary Editing 6 (Sept. 1984): 9-13.
  • Carol Johnston, “Single-Editor Editions from Manuscript: The Journals of Theodore Parker,” Newsletter of the ADE 5:3 (May 1983): 4-5.

Document Selection

  • G. Thomas Tanselle, “The Editing of Historical Documents,” Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 1-56.
  • Don L. Cook, “The Short Happy Thesis of G. Thomas Tanselle,” Documentary Editing 3 (February 1981): 1-4.
  • John Y. Simon, “The Canons of Selection.” Documentary Editing 6:4 (December 1984): 8-12.

Annotation

  • G. W. Bowersock, “The Art of the Footnote,” American Scholar 53 (Winter 1983-84): 54-62.
  • Charles Cullen, “Principles of Annotation in Editing Historical Documents: Or How to Avoid Breaking the Butterfly on the Wheel of Scholarship,” in George Vogt and John Bush Jones, eds. Literary and Historical Editing, pp. 81-95.
  • Patricia Galloway, “Death and Bias: Issues in the Editing of Ethnohistorical Materials,” Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing 3 (May 1931): 1-6.
  • John A Garraty, “Review of The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt vols. 7 and 8, American Quarterly 6 (1954): 281-84.
  • Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, “What About the Twenty-Year Gap?” Documentary Editing (March 1998): 18-20.
  • Robert Hudspeth, “Margaret Fuller’s Silences,” Documentary Editing 20:1 (March 1998): 8-12.
  • Nathan I Huggins, “Review of The Correspondence of W.E.B. DuBois, vol. 1, American Historical Review 80 (1975): 512-13.
  • Reese W. Jenkins and Thomas E. Jeffrey, “Worth a Thousand Words: Nonverbal Documents in Editing,” Documentary Editing 6 (Sept. 1984): 1-8.
  • Aileen S. Kraditor, “Editing the Abolitionists,” Reviews in American History 1 (1973): 519-23.
  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission, “On Annotation and Selectivity: Commission Policy Statement,” Annotation (Oct. 1976).
  • David J. Nordloh, “Supplying What’s Missing in Editions of Selected Letters,” Scholarly Publishing 17 (1985-86): 37-47.
  • Barbara Oberg, “Selection and Annotation: Deciding Alone” Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing 2:1 (1980): 6-9.
  • Barbara Oberg, “Interpretation in Editing: The Gallatin Papers,” Documentary Editing 4:2 (May 1982): 7-9.

Document Control

  • Martha L. Benner, “The Abraham Lincoln Legal Papers: The Development of the Complete Facsimile Editon on CD-ROM,” Documentary Editing 16 (Dec. 1994): 100-07.
  • Cathy Moran Hajo, “Computerizing Control over Authority Names at the Margaret Sanger Papers,” Documentary Editing 13 (June 1991): 35-39.
  • Leigh D. Johnsen, “Annotation Control on Computers: A Case Study of the Salmon P. Chase Project,” Documentary Editing 22:2 (June 2000): 34-38.

Publishing the Edition

  • Beth Luey, “Publishing the Edition,” Documentary Editing 13 (June 1991): 40-45.
  • James P. McClure, “The Neglected Calendar,” Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing, 10:3 (Sept. 1988): 18-21.
  • Frederick Burkhardt, “In Response…” Newsletter of the Association for Documentary Editing, 10:3 (Sept. 1988): 22-24.

Historians and Editors

  • Kendrick A. Clements, “Using the Papers of Woodrow Wilson: A Scholar’s View,” Documentary Editing 15:2 (June 1993): 34-37.
  • Esther Katz, “The Editor and Public Authority: Interpreting Margaret Sanger,” The Public Historian 17:1 (Winter 1995): 41-50.
  • Esther Katz, “Fundraising and Entreprenuurship: Confessions of a Historical Editor.” AHA Perspectives (April 1991).
  • Stuart B. Kaufman, “The Samuel Gompers Papers as Literature: Toward a Stream-of-Consciousness History,” Maryland Historian 8 (1977): 54-59.
  • Jesse Lemisch, “The Papers of a Few Great Black Men and a Few Great White Women,” Maryland Historian 6 (1975): 60-66.
  • Marc Rothenberg, “Illuminating the Edison Papers,” Documentary Editing 18:2 (June 1996): 29-31.
  • Constance B. Schultz, “‘From Generation Unto Generation’: Transition in Modern Documentary Historical Editing,” Reviews in American History 16 (Sept. 1988): 337-50.
  • Peter Shaw, “The American Heritage and its Guardians,” American Scholar 45 (1975-76): 175-82.
  • Elizabeth S. and Harvey G. Johnson, “Keynes from his Papers,” in The Shadow of Keynes (1978): 3-16.

This bibliography was compiled with the assistance of Dr. Esther Katz, drawn from the readings in her historical editing seminar at New York University.

 


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