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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 […]
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.”
ADE at the American Historical Association Meeting
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The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual AHA meeting in New Orleans, on 6 January 2013. Ed Lengel, of the George Washington Papers and the University of Virginia, chaired the panel, “Building a Swiss Army Knife: A Panel on DocTracker, a Multi-Tool for Digital Documentary Editions,” which featured the […]
Katz, Hajo and Wosh Publish Chapter in Digital Humanities Pedagogy
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Esther Katz and Cathy Moran Hajo of the Margaret Sanger Papers, and Peter Wosh of NYU’s Public History program, have co-authored a chapter “Teaching Digital Skills in an Archives and Public History Curriculum” in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics edited by Brett Hirsch, and published Open Book Publishers. […]
ADE at the Modern Language Association Meeting
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The ADE sponsored a panel at the annual MLA meeting in Boston, on 4 January 2013. Carol DeBoer-Langworthy chaired the panel, “Fraud and Forgery in Literary Texts,” which featured the following papers: “Editing Forgery, Scripting an Author: The Case of Emily Dickinson,” Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; […]
Robert P. Forbes awarded NEH Fellowship
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a year-long fellowship to Robert P. Forbes of the University of Connecticut to prepare an annotated digital edition of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. This will be the first edition to be published from Jefferson’s original manuscript, in the […]
North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied Published
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The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 3: September 1833–August 1834. Edited by: Stephen S. Witte, Marsha V. Gallagher. Foreword by: Jack F. Becker. Translated by: Dieter Karch. Universi-ty of Oklahoma Press: 2012 (ISBN: 9780806139241) The most complete record of this major expedition ever to appear in […]
New In Print: The Collected Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
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The Collected Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Vol. 1: The Voyages. Edited by Germaine Warkentin. The Champlain Society and McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012 (ISBN: 9780773540828). Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710) was many men. He was a teenager captured, tortured, and adopted by the Mohawk, and a youth relishing the freedom of the wilderness. […]