2024 ADE Annual Meeting Location
ADE Website Committee
Dear ADE membership, I’m delighted to announce that our annual conference is confirmed for Buffalo, NY, June 20-22, 2024. Events will take place during a shorter time frame (3 days rather than 4) and will occur in person at a single location: the Embassy Suites in Buffalo, NY. A follow-up […]
Pinckney Papers Announces Project Completion
ADE Website Committee
After fifteen years of editorial work supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Pinckney Papers Projects are now completed, bringing to scholars and the general public a selective edition of the papers of an important early national South Carolina family. […]
Call for Editors: Scholarly Editing
ADE Website Committee
Call for Editors Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing Summer 2023 Dear Colleagues, As the Editors in Chief of Scholarly Editing, we write to issue a call for editors and other recovery practitioners. Scholarly Editing seeks to develop and advance all aspects of textual and documentary editing, including […]
Release of Volume 40 of Scholarly Editing
Katy Gehred
Dear colleagues, Along with our editorial team, we are delighted to announce the publication of volume 40 of Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. https://scholarlyediting.org/issues/40/ Volume 40 further expands the journal’s scope to include disability studies, Holocaust studies, and works of creative rememory enriched by performance art. We […]
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award 2023: Call for Nominations
Katy Gehred
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award Committee seeks nominations for the award to be given in 2023. 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 […]
February 2022 ADE Member Events
Katy Gehred
The ADE will host two member events this month through Zoom. These are the first in a series of events to support community engagement and discussion. Event descriptions and access information are noted below. Tuesday February 21st, 12:00pm ET Community Forum: Translating Community Values into Community Action On July 28, […]
Invitation to Nominate Candidates for the ADE Council
Katy Gehred
The ADE nominating committee seeks advice, informal suggestions, and formal nominations of candidates for the offices of President-Elect, Secretary, Director of Publications, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, and Councilor-at-Large. Self-nominations are also welcome. In making suggestions, please be sure you have received assurances from nominees of their willingness to serve. […]
Job Announcement: Mary Baker Eddy Papers Seeks Part Time Transcription Verifier/Transcriber
Katy Gehred
The Mary Baker Eddy Papers seeks to hire a part-time Transcription Verifier/Transcriber. This position focuses on verifying transcriptions and transcribing for the Mary Baker Eddy Papers, in its work of annotating and digitally publishing correspondence, sermons, and other documents related to Mary Baker Eddy. The work for this position […]
New Primary Source Resource for K-12 Teachers
Katy Gehred
The Massachusetts Historical Society has released History Source, a free digital collection of primary source documents from their collection, with intention of promoting the learning of U.S. History. The MHS describes the site as “a free, easy-to-use resource hub for K–12 social studies, ELA, and civics classrooms.”
Project Announcement: The Papers of William Short
Katy Gehred
The Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina announces The Papers of William Short, a born-digital documentary edition focusing on Virginian William Short (1759-1849), who was a U.S. diplomat and fiscal agent in Europe, a successful businessman and philanthropist in the United States, an early advocate of […]