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American Historical Association Annual Meeting: Registration Now Open
Erica Cavanaugh
Registration is open for the American Historical Association Annual Meeting Join us in Denver on January 5-8, 2017, for the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. The meeting offers four days of the latest scholarship, professional development, and unparalleled networking opportunities for historians in all fields and professions. Preregister now (rates increase on December […]
Election of ADE Officers for 2016-2017
Robert
Posted on behalf of Connie Schulz: The ballot for the 2016-2017 ADE slate of officers has been e-mailed to all ADE current members. Thank you to all of those who have returned their ballots. If you haven’t filled out your ballot and sent it to the ADE secretary (yes, digital […]
Documentary Editing at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute
Cathy Moran Hajo
Since 2001, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), held annually in Victoria, B.C., Canada, has been an annual gathering of technologists, scholars, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students…and editors. For the past three years, Jennifer Stertzer and I, joined this year by Erica Cavanaugh (George Washington Financial Papers Project), have offered […]
2016 ADE Registration and Program
Jennifer Stertzer
We are pleased to announce that we have opened registration for the Association for Documentary Editing’s 2016 Conference, “Celebrate the Vibrancy of Documentary Editing,” to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from August 4-6, 2016. Links to registration, lodging, program, and other information can be found at http://www.documentaryediting.org/wordpress/?page_id=71. To look at the complete draft […]
Upcoming symposium: Jefferson Davis’s America: Perspectives on the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States
Jennifer Stertzer
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 […]
Lincoln Papers
James P. McClure
A (bleak) update on the Lincoln Papers situation.
NHPRC Strategic Plan
Paul B. Israel
Kathleen Williams, Executive Director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, has asked ADE and its members to provide input to the Commission on its new draft strategic plan. In her letter below she provides links to a YouTube presentation and to the National Archives blog where you can […]
DiXiT Convention: Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition
Cathy Moran Hajo
Registrations are now open for the DiXiT Convention – Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition (The Hague, 16 – 18 September). A detailed schedule, registration form and logistic info at http://dixit.huygens.knaw.nl/ Please note that registration is required and free of charge. One day of the Convention is dedicated […]
Sabra Statham
ADE President
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 […]
New courtship letters from the 1840s South
Mary Maillard
~~~~~~ January 1, 2015 The Belles of Williamsburg The Courtship Correspondence of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1839-1849 Edited by Mary Maillard ebook ISBN 978-0-9917893-1-3 January 2015 $35.00 from Kindle, iBooks, Kobo The Skinner Family Papers project is pleased to announce the publication of its third ebook of […]