Call for Nominations: Boydston Essay Prize

The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2023-24 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award […]

The Lyman H. Butterfield Award

The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2024. Since 1985, the Association for Documentary Editing has presented the Butterfield Award annually to recognize recent contributions in the areas of documentary publication, teaching, and service. Both senior and early-career scholars are eligible, as […]

Past ADE President Constance Schulz wins Robert Kelley Memorial Award

The National Council of Public History honored past ADE president Constance Schulz with the 2022 Robert Kelley Memorial Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in public history. Per the NCPH announcement: The Robert Kelley Memorial Award Committee is pleased to present this year’s award to a nominee with a long […]

NEH Awards Grant for a Federated Digital Resource of Early Weather and Climate Records

In January, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant of $44,570 to support collaborative planning by the University of Virginia’s Center for Digital Editing (CDE), the Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society (APS), and the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton […]

Boydston Essay Prize, 2020-21

The Association for Documentary Editing invites nominations for the 2020-21 Boydston Essay Prize. The prize will be awarded to the best essay or review published between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2019, the primary focus of which is the editing of a volume of works or documents. The award […]

Call for Nominations: 2021 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award

Please help us to recognize the best in our profession! Have you read a great new book about archives? Encountered a new documentary publication that is head and shoulders above the rest? Has a new web publication really stood out to you? If you have, please consider nominating it for […]

Call for Applicants: Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize, 2020-21

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) invites applications for its annual prize to documentary editors and students at midpoint of a project heavily dependent on documentary editing and document sources. Preference is given to persons working on women in uniformed military service or in various military support services (such as the USO) […]

Arline Custer Memorial Award

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

DEADLINE : July 31, 2020 The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections. Eligibility The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and […]