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Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 2, Summer 2004--Front Matter

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

Cover--Photo of Indiana State House, 1925--Title Page--Publication Page--Contents--Contributors

The John Jay Papers: Re-Envisioning A 20th-Century Editorial Project For A 21st-Century Audience, Mary Jo Kline

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

John Jay's papers have had a far more tortured history than they deserve-and more than seemed their destiny at his death in 1829. Then it seemed likely that his career and contributions would be studied as carefully and enthusiastically as any other Founding Father's-certainly as closely as his friends John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. His family's archive had survived the Revolution in war-torn Westchester County and New York City. His personal papers had successfully crossed the Atlantic when he returned from diplomatic missions abroad in 1784 and 1795. Jay's will placed those papers in the custody of his devoted family, …

National Origin, Alienage, And Loyalty, Denton L. Watson

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

During World War II, Americans were consumed by fears over national security owing to the presence within our borders of a large alien population and citizens who were descendants of immigrants from countries that were then fighting against us. The Roosevelt administration's reaction to the hysteria over threats from "enemy aliens" are a sobering lesson for the nation, especially given the response of the Bush administration to similar post-September 11 fears. These have led the administration to take even more drastic steps, ostensibly to protect our national security in its fight against terrorism, that specifically target Arabs and Muslims. Although …

Another Kind Of E-Mail: The Electronic Edition Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey: Review Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1871-1918, 2nd Ed.; Volume 2: 1919-1939, Past Masters Series. Edited By Larry A. Hickman, General Editor; Barbara Levine, Editor; Anne Sharpe, Editor; Harriet Furst Simon, Editor., Martin A. Coleman

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

The Correspondence of John Dewey in electronic form consists of three volumes and is edited by Larry Hickman. It is a title in the PAST MASTERS series from InteLex Corporation, along with the electronic edition of The Collected Works of John Dewey, also edited by Hickman. The first volume of the Correspondence covers the years 1871 to 1918 and includes more than 3,500 documents. The second volume covers the years 1919 to 1939 and includes over 5,000 documents. The first two volumes are currently available, and the third is due to be released this fall. It begins with documents from …

Recent Editions--Summer 2004

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

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects 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.

Ade Committees 2003-2004

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

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A "Value-Added" Resource The Law Practice Of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, Marty L. Benner

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

When the editorial staff began designing The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition (LPAL) in 1991, we intended it to become an electronic version of a microfilm edition-images of documents accessible through an electronic finding aid. l As we refined our conception of what the edition should look like, and as technological capabilities exploded in the 1990s, we saw many opportunities to add value to the edition. The fact that it was electronic made many of these ideas possible and relatively inexpensive. By the time we published LPAL, we had created not only the typical introduction to the …

Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2004.

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

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Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 1, Spring 2004--Front Matter

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

Cover--Robert Browning quote--Title Page--Publication Page--Contents--Contributors

Getting Started: An Editor's Search For One Diarist's Place In History, Linda A. Fisher

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

My introduction to documentary editing differs from that of other scholarly editors. They are scholars who became editors; I am an editor who found a project in medical history. With an M.D. degree, I had written many articles on health issues and had edited a medical society journal.

In 1999, I began researching the manuscript of Joseph Mersman (1824-1892), an obscure man who was a whiskey rectifier. From 1847 to 1864, Mersman kept a diary and made entries in English, French, and German. His 300-page record, at the Missouri Historical Society, describes life in Cincinnati and St. Louis, including the …

Douglass Liaisons: The Female Correspondents Of Frederick Douglass, 1842-52, Leigh Fought

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

For the past twenty years, historians have recognized the role that '1' women played in the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement. Works by Gerda Lerner, Nancy Hewitt,jean Fagan Yellin, Clare Taylor, and Maria Diedrich, among others, have demonstrated that women spoke, organized, promoted, and wrote on behalf of the movement to end slavery. Yet, the published volumes of the Frederick Douglass Papers have obscured that fact. Although women supported and often saved Douglass throughout his career, their voices have been conspicuously absent from the seven volumes of the Douglass Papers. With the impending publication of the first correspondence volume, which covers the …

Autobiography By Proxy; Or, Pastiche As Prologue: Review Of Lincoln On Lincoln; Franklin On Franklin; Jefferson On Jefferson; Washington On Washington; Adams On Adams Edited By Paul M. Zall, James E. Guba

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

Paul M. Zall, professor emeritus of English at California State University at Los Angeles and research scholar at the Huntington Library, has taken up Washington's invitation "to posterity to think & say what they please" by completing "autobiographies" left unfinished or never written by several preeminent Americans. He is perhaps best known as one of the editors, together with J. A. Leo Lemay, of the Center for Editions of American Authors' approved genetic text and subsequent critical edition of Franklin's Autobiography (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981; New York: Norton, 1986). The prolific Dr. Zall has also built upon his …

Ade Committees 2003-2004

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

Officers--Committees

Organization, Outreach, And Optimism: Getting A Project Up To Full Speed, Kate Culkin

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

The Harriet Jacobs Papers began as an offshoot of Jean Fagan Yellin's research for a biography of Jacobs and her edited edition of Incidents. For several years, work on the papers project was sporadic, as Dr. Yellin and a series of undergraduate and graduate students surveyed archives for material, accessioned and transcribed documents, and began research on the annotations. The pace changed dramatically in the summer of 2002 when the project received funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation and secured a contract to publish the book with the University of North Carolina …

Recent Editions--Spring 2004

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

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects 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.

Announcement--Boydston Essay Prize

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

The Association for Documentary Editing seeks nominations for the sixth biennial Jo Ann Boydston Essay Prize. The prize, in the amount of $300.00, will be awarded in October 2005 for the best review or review essay that deals with the scholarly editing of works or documents.

Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2004.

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

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Recent Editions--Winter 2004

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

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects 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.

A Unique Perspective: Documentary Editors And Biography, David B. Mattern

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

Documentary editors are attracted to and often bemused and irritated by biography (and biographers). They have a unique perspective on this genre that I'm going to explore through the prism of my own experience as a biographer and a documentary editor. I've been an editor for nearly twenty years and in that time have written or collaborated on four biographical projects-a biography of Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln, a selected letters edition of Dolley Payne Madison, and two children's biographies of Dolley and James Madison.

The Future Of University Presses, Janet Rabinowitch

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

The "future of university presses" is an open-ended topic, and I don't pretend to be a crystal ball gazer, so I will focus my remarks more directly on trends and issues that are currently preoccupying my university press colleagues, developments that will have a strong influence on what our future is likely to be.

Ade Awards--Winter 2004

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

Life Service Award--Julian P. Boyd Award--Lyman H. Butterfield Award

Obituary--Susan J. Rosowski, Frederick M. Link

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

Susan Rosowski, Adele Hall Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died on November 2, 2004, after a long and valiant battle with cancer. Professor Rosowski was general editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition, director of the Cather Project and the Cather International Seminar, and editor-in-chief of Cather Studies. She was the major force in creating and sustaining all of them. Over some twenty years, she was instrumental in securing Cather's place as a major twentieth century author. She won the University's highest awards for both teaching and scholarship, a rare achievement, and her professional life modeled …

Ade Committees 2004-2005

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

Officers--Committees

Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2004--Front Matter

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

Cover--Photo of State Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Monument Circle, Indianapolis, IN--Title page--Publication information--Contents--Contributors

Presidential Address--I Dreamed Of Editing, Esther Katz

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

Presidential address delivered at the 26th annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing Indianapolis, Indiana, 13 November 2004

The Editor As Biographer, John P. Kaminski

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

Editors are really biographers of sorts almost all the time when editing ~ the papers of their subjects. All meaningful characters who appear in documentary editions are usually identified in footnotes and head notes, biographical directories, introductions, and sometimes even in indexes. No one knows the subject-the person being studied-as well as the documentary editor. Day in and day out editors pore over their documents intently, attempting to make sense of the interrelationships among all the historical participants. As part of their responsibility, editors explain the intricacies and uncertainties in these relationships.

Documentary Editing, Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 2004--Index

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

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Ade 26th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, 12-14 November 2004, Session Summaries

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

Connection and Education: Editors and the Web--Editing Native American Materials--Editing Around Blank Spaces: Dealing with Classified, Suppressed, and Limited Access Materials--Alarums and Excursions in Literary Editing--Editors and Biography--Bombs, but Bonnets Too: Military History Projects as Sources for Social History

Documentary Editing, Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2003--Front Matter

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

Cover--25, Association of Documentary Editing, 1979-2003--Title page--Publication page--Contents--Contributors

What We Would Have Done Differently Now That It Is Too Late, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W. Smock

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

We might as well begin on a note of candor by admitting the worst error we ever made, for of all the things that we would have done differently this surely heads the list. On the errata page of volume 8 appears the note: "Volume 4, p. 309, n. 1. The man wrongly identified as Robert Brown Elliott [a black man] was actually William Elliott, a white man. The letter to BTW, Apr. 25,1898, was from Rev. G. M. Elliott of Beaufort, S.C." Not only had we confused a black man with a white man and another black man, but …