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Here Comes Tomorrow--And It's Full Of Challenges, David R. Chesnutt

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Documentary editors have put technology to good use in the last twenty years. Technology has helped us:

• gain better intellectual control over our documents

• produce more accurate and reliable texts

• find information that enhances our annotation • provide better intellectual access through our indexes

In spite of the wide array of software available, most projects have never gone beyond word-processing and spreadsheet programs. Here and there the landscape is dotted with a database program or two. And a few hardy souls even took on the mainframe and used it to create indexes and bibliographies, to compare texts, …

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 4, December 1998.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

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Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 4, December 1998--Front Matter

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"The Most Important Scholarly Work": Reflections On Twenty Years Of Change In Historical Editing, Michael E. Stevens

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Twenty years ago, at the first annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing in Princeton, New Jersey, Arthur Link stated that documentary editing is "the most important scholarly work being done in the United States, and, if well done, it will be the most enduring." Last year, the distinguished historian Edmund S. Morgan echoed Link when he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the 154 volumes produced by the Founding Fathers editions "stand as the single most important achievement of American historical scholarship in this century."

Despite this high praise, Link's and Morgan's opinions are not universally held. …

Nothing Left To Lose: Of, Changes In Literary Editing And The Decline Of Civilization As We Know It, Joel Myerson

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

My title is somewhat facetious, but not completely. There has been a profound shift in the direction and underlying assumptions of editorial theory and practice during the thirty years in which I have been practicing this craft, and my purpose here is to make some general observations on this topic. I start with a warning, though: most of my comments apply to textual or literary editing, not to documentary editing as it is practiced by literary editors.

Nhprc Invites Applications For Documentary Editing Fellowships

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) is now accepting applications from individuals for its Documentary Editing Fellowships, which provide training in historical documentary editing at projects supported by the Commission. Contingent upon the availability of sufficient Fiscal Year 1999 funds, two fellowships will be awarded for the 1999-2000 academic year. The stipend for an editing fellow is $41,250 (includes fringe benefits). Fellowships are for an eleven-month period beginning between August and October 1999. In addition to attending the Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents held in June 1999 in Madison, Wisconsin, fellows will have some funds available …

The Art Of Editorial Decision Making: Review Of Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook Of Practice (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 1997). Michael E. Stevens And Steven B. Burg., Beth Luey

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

In a paper presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing and published in this issue of Documentary Editing, Michael Stevens discussed advances in the craft, professionalism, and legacy of the field over the past twenty years. The book that he and Steven Burg have written is an example of the interconnections among these advances. For a craft to improve, its practitioners must become more professional and reflective about their practices. For professionalism to develop, a body of knowledge and some degree of consensus about the practice of a craft must be established. And for a …

Touring Colonial America: Review Of Edward Kimber, Itinerant Observation In America, Ed. Kevin J. Hayes., Darin E. Fields

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Traveling to the colonies in 1742 at age twenty-three, young Edward Kimber embarked on what was no doubt the adventure of his life. Son of Isaac Kimber, editor of the London Magazine from 1732 to 1755, Edward had grown up around the publishing industry and was keenly aware of the public appetite for reading material. Like nearly all literate travelers of his day, but perhaps more aware than many that his travels in the colonies would furnish material for later publication, Kimber dutifully kept a journal record of his observations and experiences. His American adventure yielded literary fruit from 1743 …

1998 Julian Boyd Award--199& Lyman H. Butterfield Award

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The Association for Documentary Editing confers the Julian P. Boyd Award on a senior scholar who has made a major contribution to American history and culture through documentary editing. The highest honor the Association bestows, the Boyd Award is unique in its recognition of lifetime achievement in the field of documentary editing. It is awarded every third year. The 1998 recipient of the Julian P. Boyd Award is JohnY. Simon.

The Lyman H. Butterfield Award is presented annually to an individual, project, or institution for contributions in the areas of documentary publication, teaching, and service. The Association for Documentary Editing …

Recent Editions--December 1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

"Recent Editions" attempts to provide an up-to-date, annotated bibliography of all scholarly editions of documents in the fields of English and American history, literature, and culture, starting with those published in 1992. The bibliography is generally restricted to works edited from manuscript, but other noteworthy books received may be listed.

Association For Documentary Editing Council, 1998-1999--Ade Committees, 1998-1999

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Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 3, September 1998.

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So You Think You Need A Web Page? Designing World Wide Web Access To Documentary Editing Projects, Cathy Moran Hajo

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The World Wide Web is rapidly becoming the first place that researchers and the curious look when they are interested in a topic. For those with access, Internet searches using Web browsers can rapidly open a door to a vast storehouse of knowledge and information. Everyone and her brother seems to have a web page, whether for selling widgets, advertising a conference, or just telling you who they are and what they like to do. Wading through this virtual forest to find the gems can occupy hours, even days, with no guarantee that the information you find on the Web …

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 3, September 1998--Front Matter

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Exposing "Secrets Worth Knowing" In The Early Republic: Robert R. Henry's Papers As A Problem In Documentary Research, Robert Scott Davis Jr.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The "Journal of Archibald Clark" proved to be the papers of Robert R. Henry. They document Henry's 1820s political crusade in Georgia, New York, and Washington to replace Clark as the port master at St. Marys, Georgia. Henry meticulously recorded his thoughts and actions in what he eventually left as a memoir to his descendants. He even saw ammunition for his causes in documents critical of his efforts, which he copied without obvious prejudice. These papers provide an extremely rare documented case study of political activism of the period.

Churchill-Reves Correspondence : Review Of Winston Churchill And Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964, Ed. With An Introduction And Notes By Martin Gilbert., Roger Adelson

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and editor of his papers since 1968, has added another volume to his extraordinary documentation of the British statesman's life and career. In the mid-1990s, this historian at Merton College, Oxford, was knighted for completing the official biography, which was started by Churchill's son in the early 1960s. When Randolph Churchill died, the holder of the copyright asked Gilbert, then one of Randolph's research assistants, to continue the official biography along the lines that had already been established by the family and the British and U.S. publishers. The first two volumes, Youth, …

From The Archives--Ade Minutes Of Founding Meeting

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The following document was provided by Harriet Simon from the archives of the Association. It has been transcribed literally, except that original line spacing, line breaks, and indentions have not been retained. The original document was typed double-spaced on four pages and includes the signature of the first secretary-treasurer, Charlene Bickford. This transcription was prepared from a photocopy.

1998 Ade Contributors: Ade Sustaining, Patron, And Life Members

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The Association for Documentary Editing thanks its contributors and its sustaining, patron, and life members. Those whose dues or contributions were received by 15 August 1998 are listed below.

Association For Documentary Editing Council--Ade Committees 1997-1998

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Recent Editions--September 1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

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Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 2, June 1998.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

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On Editing Hemingway Badly Or Not At All: Cautionary Reflections, Susan F. Beegel

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

The archivally correct cardboard boxes of the Hemingway Collection pulse with energy. Hemingway's estate included at his death nearly twenty thousand pages of holograph, typescript, carbon, and proof. Those pages make up more than eight hundred manuscripts of published and unpublished work, and vividly show the composition process of twentieth-century American literature's most influential prose stylist. They represent as well one of the last and finest opportunities to study the composition process itself, now that the delete key has arrived to send all false starts, alternative endings, errors, and omissions into the ether, and to cloak the writer's additions and …

The Ernest Hemingway Collection At The John F. Kennedy Library, Stephen Plotkin

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

For the ADE meeting last October, I was asked to comment on the Hemingway Collection from the perspective of an archivist and a curator. The trouble is, the Hemingway Collection is, at this point, thoroughly uninteresting-archivally speaking. Basic concepts of archival theory such as provenance or original order, respect du fonds, apply either trivially (we know precisefly where these papers came from) or not at all (these papers never had an original order). In terms of archival practice, the Hemingway Collection at one time posed a genuine challenge, simply because it did lack any order. The first curator, Jo August …

Transcribing And Translating Early Nineteenth Century Moravian Missionary Diaries, Rowena Mcclinton

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

This paper illuminates the importance of the Moravian Archives as a major repository for the study of Cherokee culture, missionary contributions to the understanding of Native history, the editorial approaches taken to render the best textual treatment of the documents, and the overall significance of the documents as they relate to Cherokee culture.

A Northerner Transformed : Review Of The Fire Of Liberty In Their Hearts: The Diary Of Jacob E. Yoder Of The Freedmen's Bureau School Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866-1870. Samuel L. Horst, Ed., James H. Cook

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

It is hard to believe that ten years have passed since the publication of Eric Foner's magnum opus, Reconstruction: America} Unfinished Revolution, 1863- 1877. It seems like only yesterday that the historical profession first encountered what is now considered the definitive history of the postbellum era in the United States~ The main reason for this temporal illusion, of course, is that scholars have offered little or no revision of the main story Foner offered in 1988. Indeed, the book seems destined to go the route of C. Vann Woodward's monumental work, Origins of the New South, which survived unscathed for …

In Memoriam, Arthur Stanley Link, 1920-1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Arthur Stanley Link, Director and Editor of the Papers of Woodrow Wilson Emeritus and George Henry Davis '08 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton University, died on March 26 at the Bermuda Village Health Center in Advance, North Carolina. The cause of death was lung cancer; he was seventy-seven years old. Link was one of the founders and the first president of the Association for Documentary Editing, 1979-80, and remained an enthusiastic supporter and adviser to subsequent officers of the ADE as well as to editors of the many projects which have developed under its aegis over the years.

Are Religious Records Different?, Robert J. Cain

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

Are religious records different?" It depends. The answer must take into account such basic historical considerations as time, place, circumstances, and personalities. This much, as least, is common to "religious" and "secular" records.

Recent Editions--June 1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

"Recent Editions" attempts to provide an up-to-date, annotated bibliography of all scholarly editions of documents in the fields of English and American history, literature, and culture, starting with those published in 1992. The bibliography is generally restricted to works edited from manuscript, but other noteworthy books received may be listed.

Association For Documentary Editing Council--Ade Committees 1997-1998

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)

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