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Call for Nominations: 2013 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award
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Please help the Society for American Archivists 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 web publication really stood out to […]
Register for Humanities Advocacy Day
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I’m writing to remind you that Humanities Advocacy Day is only a little more than two months away. As I’m sure all of you are only too well aware, the FY’14 appropriations battle will be a very difficult one as the pressure to cut spending increases. The grants programs of […]
Call for Nominations for Lyman H. Butterfield Award
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The Association for Documentary Editing is soliciting nominations for the 2013 Lyman H. Butterfield Award. The award is presented annually to an individual, project, or institution for recent contributions in the areas of documentary publication, teaching, and service. Nomination letters should describe the rseaons for the award and should be […]
Margaret Sanger Papers Project Summer Internships – New York City
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The Margaret Sanger Papers Project has offered summer internships since 1995. Graduate and undergraduate students from universities in the U.S. and Europe have worked with the editorial staff on our microfilm, book and digital publications and received broad experience in historical research and editing. For 2013, we will be offering […]
Look for Caroline W. Van Deusen’s article in “White House History”
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Caroline W. Van Deusen, Project Archivist with E-Archives and new ADE member will publish an article, “The Diary of Elizabeth Dixon” in the March 2013 issue of White House History. The article describes the life of a young mother and wife of a junior congressman offering a glimpse of Washington […]
Chuck Hobson Completes Edition of St. George Tucker
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Past ADE president Chuck Hobson has completed work on his edition of St. George Tucker’s Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825 (3 vols., Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture), and its publication will be celebrated by a reception at the William and Mary Law School on 22 January. […]
Marc Rothenberg Named President of Society for History in the Federal Government
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Marc Rothenberg, formerly of the Papers of Joseph Henry, and now at the National Science Foundation, is the president of the Society for History in the Federal Government for 2012-2013. The Society was founded in 1979 in Washington, DC, to advance the unique interests of federal historians and provide a […]
Kate Lynch Awarded English Language Fellowship at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
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Kate Lynch was named the 2012-2013 English Language Fellow at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in Burdur, Turkey. Kate’s grant is from the U.S. Dept. of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her duties include teaching, presentations at conferences, mentoring Turkish teachers for the Fulbright programs, and public speaking […]
Public History Director – Arizona State University
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Public History Director Position (Job #10312). The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a tenured or tenure-eligible Associate Professor position as director of its Public History Program. This program, which partners with the Scholarly Publishing Program, is among the country’s flagship […]
Jeopardy Mention!
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On the 8 January episode of Jeopardy, Gary Moulton was named in a clue concerning the Lewis and Clark Journals. In the category “Editor” in the Double Jeopardy round, the clue (for $1200) was: “Gary Moulton edited this 19th c. duo’s journal–not easy when they spelled “Sioux” 27 different ways.”