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The Short Happy Thesis Of G. Thomas Tanselle, Don L. Cook

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

You will be relieved to know that the sheaf of pages I hold in my hand does not constitute the paper I intend to inflict upon you this morning. It is instead a Xerox copy of Tom Tanselle's article "The Editing of Historical Documents" as it appeared in the 1978 volume of Studies in Bibliography. I display it in this way for two contrasting reasons. First, it provides the physical evidence of one salient fact of Tom's critical scholarship. That is, when he writes on a topic he writes on all of it. There is an encyclopedic quality to his …

Review Of The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts Of The War For IndependenceJohn C. Dann, Ed., Constance B. Schulz

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

The Revolution Remembered makes a major contribution to scholarship of the Revolutionary War by bringing together in one volume a sampling of the rich resources of the common soldier's memory of that war as found in the Revolutionary War Pension and Land Warrant Records in Record Group 15 of the National Archives. Any student of the revolution who has used these records is aware of their virtually untapped potential for interpreting the way in which the war affected the common soldier both during the military campaigns themselves and in the decades after the men returned to their communities and families. …

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 4, December 1981.

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

No abstract provided.

12/22/1980 Birthday Note, Sumner T. Bernstein

Rosalyne S. Bernstein Correspondence

For more information on the Rosalyne S. Bernstein Papers, please visit the finding aid HERE

Brief note from Sumner T. Bernstein to Rosalyne S. Bernstein on the occasion of her 52nd birthday.

Orpheus, Fall 1980, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

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1980s (Date Unknown), 90.9 Wmpg Em

WMPG Program Guides

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Date Unknown (1980s), 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

Trifold, light brown, undated.

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Date Unknown (Early 1980s), 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

Trifold, light grey. Undated

Program Director Notes menion a recent move to "new studios".

Selection And Annotation: Deciding Alone, Barbara Oberg

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

I am interested that the Association for Documentary Editing would have a panel on the solo editor, because since reading Don Higginbotham's piece in the March issue of the ADE Newsletter the idea of the solo editor as a particular species of the genus of historical editor has intrigued me. As the single, sole, solo editor of the Papers of David Hartley, and as the associate editor of The Papers . of Philip Mazzei, I am presently both a solo editor and a team editor. I feel, therefore, sensitive to the difficulties which the solo editor shares with other editors, …

Amendments To Constitution Proposed

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

The Association's president, Lester J. Cappon, and its steering committee recommend the following amendments to the constitution of the Association for Documentary Editing.

Documentary Editing: A Bibliography, Ross W. Beales Jr.

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

Documentary editing has achieved unprecedented importance in American historical scholarship since the publication in 1950 of the first volume of Julian P. Boyd's edition of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Thanks to the support of state and federal government, foundations, and universities and to the labors of a generation of editors, scores of letterpress and microfilm editions have been completed or are in progress. These editions are noteworthy for their comprehensiveness and high standards of scholarship as well as for their cost. The rapid expansion of documentary editing has been accompanied by the appearance of an extensive literature on all …

Program Committee For 1980ade Meeting In Williamsburg

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

John Y. Simon, president-elect of ADE, is chairman of the program committee for the 30 October-1 November 1980 annual meeting, to be held at the Hospitality House, adjacent the campus of the College of William and Mary.

Donor Establishes Award To Honor Boyd

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

The Association for Documentary Editing recently received $500 to establish the Julian P. Boyd Award . This is intended to serve as a memorial to Boyd that will reflect both the breadth of his interests and his concern for excellence. The award will be given every three years to honor a distinguished contribution to knowledge of American history and culture. The donor, who prefers to be anonymous, intends to make further contributions to the award fund but not necessarily to support it single-handedly.

Association Gathers In Williamsburg For Second Annual Meeting

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

Conference Program--1980 Program Committee--Eleven-Minute Copier

Where We Stand Now And Where We Might Go, Arthur S. Link

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

Incomplete though my own knowledge and wisdom are, this is the time, above all others, when we need to take a hard look at ourselves and what we are doing and not doing; that what we need is honest if unpleasant self-scrutiny, not self-congratulation. The love of God is the beginning of wisdom; but we can neither love God nor acquire wisdom until we are honest about ourselves. Let me hasten to say that the following observations about our deficiencies as documentary editors apply exclusively, I think it is fair to say, to those of us who work in materials …

The Editor And Word Processing Equipment, Larry I. Bland

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

The nature of the editor's task frequently forces her to acquire greater knowledge of book production than the normal author, who gladly relinquishes technical worries to the publisher's staff. Necessity is frequently the chief motivating factor and osmosis the method in the editor's acquisition of this esoteric knowledge. Not surprisingly, given the financial resources involved, editors in the commercial sector have been quicker to adopt the latest technology to their tasks than have editors in the low-budget, subsidized, money-losing academic sector. The documentary editor, if she or he hopes _somehow to cope with income evaporation and cost inflation, must familiarize …

Resolutions

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

Resolutions submitted by the Resolutions Committee, Frank G. Burke, Barbara Oberg, and George C. Rogers, Jr., and passed at the ADE business meeting, 30 October 1981.

Mazzei Honored By Italy And U.S.

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

The year 1980 marks the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Philip Mazzei (1730-1816), the forgotten patriot who emigrated to Virginia in 1773 and joined Jefferson, Henry, and other colonial patriots in the growing independence movement. A United States Airmail Stamp commemorating the anniversary will be issued on 13 October, in Washington, D.C. The stamp has the same design as an Italian stamp to be issued at Poggio a Caiano, Italy, Mazzei's birthplace.

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 4, December 1980

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

No abstract provided.

Editors' Dialogue: Reading The Continental Congress Men's Mail, Paul H. Smith, Brent Tarter

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

For this feature, which is designed to promote that exchange of ideas for which the Association for Documentary Editing exists, the reviewer was instructed to focus his comments on two aspects of the work under examination--one thing done well and one thing that might have been done differently. Admittedly, when the perfect editor produces the perfect edition the flaw in this contrived format shall stand exposed. Yet, even when that perfect edition comes to hand we mortal editors are likely to benefit when one of our number, forced to write about something "that might have been done differently," describes those …

The "Perfect" Text: The Editor Speaks For The Author, David J. Nordloh

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

I'd like to offer two preliminary comments about the general topic of this session, the "perfect" text, and another about the aspect of that topic which I've been asked to discuss. On the general topic, our presentations may - indeed should - overlap; no aspect of textual scholarship, theoretical or practical, can be sensibly isolated from the others. And second, the placement of "perfect" in quotation marks in the title of the session is an acknowledgment of the virtual impossibility of the task: as editors we are frustrated by a multitude of conditions - I'll be describing a few of …

The Fear Of Ideas, Julian Parks Boyd

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

Selections from an address by Julian Parks Boyd, 12 June 1951

Documentary Reviewing Reviewed: A Survey Of The Book Review Policies Of Selected Historical Journals, Gregg L. Lint

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

Book reviews in many ways are more important for the documentary publication than the monograph. In the latter case the book is published, reviewed, and in a sense forgotten. Multiple volume documentary editions, published over a long period, should receive and, indeed, require constant review, each new volume being compared with the preceding ones. The importance of reviews is no less for smaller selective editions of only a few volumes or on microforms. For the documentary edition, much more a reference book than the monograph, reviews should inform potential users of its utility and help to maintain quality.

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 1, February 1980.

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

No abstract provided.

Treasurer's Report, 6 November 1979-30 October 1980, Raymond W. Smock

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

No abstract provided.

President Presented First Volume Of Andrew Jackson Papers

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

The first volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson, published 28 June 1980 by the University of Tennessee Press, was presented to President Jimmy Carter at a recent White House ceremony.

Errata: Being The Correction Of A Singular Transposition With Apologies From The Transpositor To His Readers, Jon Kukla

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

Having committed (with three inch high characters) a noticeable transposition in the ADE acronym on the cover of the February Newsletter, we do not especially savor the experience.

Mellon Foundation Makes Large Editing Grant

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

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City has granted $425,000 to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in support of historical editing projects of five Founding Fathers: John Adams (and his family), Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. The grant is intended to give the editors and sponsoring institutions a three-year period in which to develop other bases of financial support, as funds from federal grant-making agencies, such as the NHPRC are not expected to keep pace with rising editorial and production costs. The NHPRC will administer the Mellon Foundation award, making separate annual …

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 2, May 1980.

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

No abstract provided.

Cardinal Principles, Historical And Archival, Warren M. Billings

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

This first convention of our associtation invites observations on the present state of documentary editing. As a branch of learning, documentary editing has come of age, for underlying its practice are principles and values that make it as distinctive a field of inquiry as say quantitative history or literary criticism. That it has matured is due in no small measure to scholars like our president and president-elect, who rank among the pioneers of modern editorial methods. Documentary editing has gained in popularity, as witness the growth of this organization in just its first year of existence or the increasing number …