Recent Editions,
2011
Princeton University
Recent Editions, W. Bland Whitley
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
This annual bibliography of documentary editions recently published in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works. In addition to the bibliographical references, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.
From The Canonical To The Non-Canonical: Editing, The Walt Whitman Archive, And Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Poetry,
2011
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From The Canonical To The Non-Canonical: Editing, The Walt Whitman Archive, And Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Poetry, Elizabeth M. Lorang
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
This paper draws on my experiences at the Walt Whitman Archive as I begin thinking about my own digital editing project that will treat nineteenth century newspaper poetry. Until recently, I have imagined my project as a fairly straightforward digital documentary edition of newspaper poems, one in which a selection of newspaper poems would comprise the primary texts for editorial treatment. The edition also would accommodate the surrounding text of the newspapers in some capacity, whether with page images or within a critical apparatus. As I have become more familiar with the texts I want to recover, edit, and present—the …
Julian P. Boyd Award Presented To John P. Kaminski,
2011
Princeton University
Julian P. Boyd Award Presented To John P. Kaminski, Barbara Oberg
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
The Julian P. Boyd Award is the highest award presented by the ADE. It was established in 1980 through the contribution of an anonymous donor. The award commemorates Boyd’s commitment to excellence and the breadth of his scholarly interests. First presented in 1981, the Boyd Award is now given every three years to a senior scholar in honor of a distinguished contribution to the study of American history and culture.
Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 32: 2011-Front Matter,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 32: 2011-Front Matter
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Front matter: Officers, Publication Committee, Editorial Staff, Table of Contents
Issues And Challenges Of Moving And Maintaining The Papers Of Ulysses S. Grant,
2011
Mississippi State University
Issues And Challenges Of Moving And Maintaining The Papers Of Ulysses S. Grant, Ryan P. Semmes, John F. Marszalek
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
In December 2008 two large moving vans arrived at the Mitchell Memorial Library at Mississippi State University, Starkville, containing over ninety filing cabinets and hundreds of boxes of materials belonging to The Ulysses S. Grant Association (USGA), formerly housed at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). These materials represented over forty-six years of work by the late John Y. Simon and The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant project.
On Editing Late-Nineteenth-Century Author Interviews,
2011
University of New Mexico
On Editing Late-Nineteenth-Century Author Interviews, Gary Scharnhorst
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Contrary to the assertions of the marketing department of the Paris Review, the celebrity interview was not invented in 1953. In fact, the first interviews with prominent authors began to appear in American newspapers in the early 1870s. No interviews with Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, each of whom died before or during the Civil War, are known to exist. Charles Dickens sat for no interviews during any of his U.S. speaking tours, including the final one in 1867–1868. The first known interview with Mark Twain appeared in 1871, and the second was not published until …
Rethinking Digital Editing Practices To Better Address
Non-Canonical Texts,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Rethinking Digital Editing Practices To Better Address Non-Canonical Texts, Amanda A Gailey
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
This article stems from my recent work on Race and Children’s Literature of the Gilded Age (RCLGA),1 a digital archive that aims to provide a heavily annotated resource for scholars and students of literature, history, African American studies, visual communication, and education to examine how adults wanted children to think about race during the era of Jim Crow. I edit the archive with Gerald Early, Professor of Modern letters, English, African studies, and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and D. B. Dowd, Professor of Communication Design and American Culture Studies, also at Washington University. When complete, …
Editing Non-Canonical Texts: Issues And Opportunities,
2011
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Editing Non-Canonical Texts: Issues And Opportunities, Kenneth M. Price
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
The three articles that follow—by Elizabeth Lorang, Amanda Gailey, and Wesley Raabe—highlight challenges and opportunities faced by editors who address non-canonical texts.1 These essays, while commenting on individual projects, also help narrow the gap separating the disciplines of literary studies and documentary editing. That is, in the past few decades in literary studies, a great deal of attention has been directed toward previously neglected writers. This work—and the debates it has engendered—is contributing to a more complex and multi-faceted sense of our cultural history. Remarkably, full-scale editorial work has barely addressed our altered intellectual landscape.2 Most work by editors has …
Association For Documentary Editing Business Meeting, 15 October 2010, Hilton Garden Inn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Association For Documentary Editing Business Meeting, 15 October 2010, Hilton Garden Inn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Program Committee--President’s Report--Liaison Committee Report--Membership Committee Report--Secretary’s Report--Treasurer’s Report--Federal Policy Committee Report--Motion to adjourn was passed unanimously at 4:36 pm.
Preserving The Alliance: The Artful Diplomacy Of Benjamin Franklin,
2011
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Preserving The Alliance: The Artful Diplomacy Of Benjamin Franklin, John P. Kaminski
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Documentary editions are filled with stories—stories that often are rich with detail. One of many such stories is found in The Emerging Nation, a three-volume work edited by Mary A. Giunta and J. Dane Hartgrove and published by the NHPRC in 1996. I would hope that this short article might inspire editors and the users of these documentary editions to bring these kinds of stories to life.
Helen R. Deese Honored With The 2010 Lyman H. Butterfield Award,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Helen R. Deese Honored With The 2010 Lyman H. Butterfield Award, Butterfield Award Selection Committee
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
The Lyman H. Butterfield Award is presented this year to Helen R. Deese. With this award the Association for Documentary Editing recognizes, first and foremost, Professor Deese’s achievements as a scholar who works on both sides of our putative divide, producing acclaimed editions of both literary and historical texts. We also recognize her generous service to the Association over many years as a member of its committees and Council, a presenter at annual meetings, an author in Documentary Editing, and a thoughtful contributor to our ongoing discussions of editorial theory and practice.
Presidential Address--New Editorial Futures For
The Past,
2011
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Presidential Address--New Editorial Futures For The Past, Kenneth M. Price
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Documentary Editing has served the association well since 1979 as a print journal, but it has run into the familiar problems of a print journal with a limited circulation and ever-increasing costs for paper, printing, and mailing. There have also been problems in having a lack of continuity in the position of editor. The association owes many thanks to the publications committee, and in particular to Ron Bosco and Rich Leffler for their recent work as co-editors. Bosco and Leffler agreed to serve for two years, and with time slipping away we needed new leadership. Luckily Amanda Gailey and Andrew …
Gender Composition Of Online Technical Communication Collaborations,
2011
University of Central Florida
Gender Composition Of Online Technical Communication Collaborations, Erika A. Wardell
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Online collaborations are more prevalent in society due to electronic communication allowing students and professionals to communicate with each other, without needing to spend time or money traveling. The lack of visual cues in electronic communication means writing styles primarily set the tone of a message. A group member‟s gender can affect his or her writing style and what he or she assumes about the message. The differing writing styles and potential gender bias can cause misunderstandings, which delay projects and sometimes lead to ostracizing a group member. The gender composition of an online collaboration, therefore, can have a positive …
Xml Beyond The Tags,
2011
University of Central Florida
Xml Beyond The Tags, Christopher Adam Meloy
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
XML is quickly being utilized in the field of technical communication to transfer information from database to person and company to company. Often communicators will structure information without a second thought of how or why certain tags are used to mark up the information. Because the company or a manual says to use those tags, the communicator does so. However, if professionals want to unlock the true potential of XML for better sharing of information across platforms, they need to understand the effects the technology using XML as well as political and cultural factors have on the tags being used. …
Editing Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’S Travel Writing And The Conundrum Of Copies,
2011
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Editing Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’S Travel Writing And The Conundrum Of Copies, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
For Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, living and writing were virtually synonymous. An inveterate letter-writer and journal-keeper, she was among the first American women to document her travels abroad. In December of 1833, Sophia Peabody departed for Cuba; she spent the next eighteen months on a coffee plantation, where her older sister Mary was a governess. In 1853, Sophia Hawthorne left the United States again, this time with her husband, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who assumed the post of United States Consul at Liverpool. During the subsequent seven years, Sophia traveled throughout England and Scotland. She and her daughters, Una and Rose, also journeyed …
“A Broad, Generous Stream Of Love And Bounty”:
The Concord Sewing Circle And The Holley School For Freedmen,
2011
Virginia Commonwealth University
“A Broad, Generous Stream Of Love And Bounty”: The Concord Sewing Circle And The Holley School For Freedmen, Mary Lamb Shelden
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Following her trip in October 1875 to the Women’s Congress in Syracuse, Louisa May Alcott spent November and December at Dr. Miller’s Bath Hotel in New York City. There, she spent time with Sallie Holley (1818–1893), who was a frequent visitor at the Hotel. The two spent six weeks “go[ing] about together”: on Thanksgiving Day, they took a carriage ride together in Central Park; another day, they went to tea at the home of a cousin of Holley’s.1 Holley was among the “notables” Alcott remarked on in her Journal, along with Henry Ward Beecher, Bret Harte, Ann Booth, and Moncure …
What’S In A Name? Cultural Onomastics And Other Scary Things About The Lincolns And Their Contemporaries,
2011
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
What’S In A Name? Cultural Onomastics And Other Scary Things About The Lincolns And Their Contemporaries, James M. Cornelius
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
Let me engage in some speculative onomastics. Onomastics is the study of both what a person or a group calls himself, herself, or itself, and what others call that entity. It is the Lincolns’ names for themselves, and what others have called them, that is the main point of discussion for this talk. Many of their contemporaries underwent similar letter-adding or letter-dropping in their names. Again, this will be speculative. I am no more a cultural historian than the next person. Nor have I performed a thorough search of the scholarly literature on either nineteenth-century naming and spelling patterns or …
The Lion In Winter : Review Of Collected Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume Viii: Letters And Social Aims Edited By Ronald A. Bosco, Glen M. Johnson, And Joel Myerson.,
2011
Yale University
The Lion In Winter : Review Of Collected Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume Viii: Letters And Social Aims Edited By Ronald A. Bosco, Glen M. Johnson, And Joel Myerson., Richard Deming
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
The recent publication by Harvard University Press of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Letters and Social Aims, Volume VIII of the Collected Works, is in many ways the most important contribution of this ongoing project, which presents scholarly editions of one of America’s most central literary and philosophical figures. Among all of Emerson’s books, Letters and Social Aims is without a doubt the most vexed in terms of textual questions, coming as it did so late in his life and at the dimming of his powers. However, the volume also represents some of the finest, most necessary thinking of this shaper of …
Changes Coming To Documentary Editing,
2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Changes Coming To Documentary Editing, Amanda A Gailey, Andrew Jewell
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)
This spring the Council of the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), working with the Publications Committee, accepted our proposal to edit Documentary Editing, beginning with the 2012 issue; the Council also approved a change in the journal’s title to Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing. Our plan is to continue the fine traditions of the journal— essays about the theory and practice of editing, reviews of editions, and news pertinent to the ADE membership—while simultaneously taking the journal in an exciting new direction. Owing largely to a partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Center for Digital …
A Simplified User's Guide For Microsoft Office Excel 2007,
2010
University of Arkansas Little Rock
A Simplified User's Guide For Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Joan F. Ballantyne
Theses and Dissertations
Computers have become an integral part of everyday life, and as we become more and more dependent on technology in domestic life and at the office, competency in the use of software applications becomes a necessity. But, mastering software programs is sometimes frustrating even for the computer savvy. Existing documentation is still insufficiently clear. Users still have difficulty understanding instructions, the scope of the software, and how to utilize it to their advantage. Some computer users shy away from Microsoft Office Excel 2007 even though its many features and functions can make their work easier in a variety of ways. …
