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A Great Lady: Review Of The Selected Letters Of Dolley Payne Madison. Edited By David B. Mattern And Holly C. Shulman., Beverly Wilson Palmer

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

Why is Dolley Madison considered one of the most important nineteenth-century American women and the greatest First Lady until Eleanor Roosevelt assumed the position in 1933?" In their introduction to Chapter Three, editors Mattern and Shulman pose this question as the thesis of The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison (92). The editors' question is a provocative one. Who remembers Sarah Childress Polk? Ida Saxton McKinley? Others, such as Abigail Smith Adams or Edith Bolling Wilson, come to mind but their roles were not like the ones Dolley Madison fashioned for herself as First Lady. In this volume we see …

Recent Editions--Summer 2006

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.

The Missing Link: The Legacy Of Martin Luther King, Jr.'S Early Sermons, Susan Englander

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

In 1997 King Papers Project director Clayborne Carson obtained a substantial body of such materials. Mrs. Coretta Scott King granted the King Papers Project permission to examine papers kept in boxes in the basement of the home that became the King residence in 1965 and to identify items that were appropriate for the Project's mission. The most significant discovery resulting from this exploration was a private file of sermon materials King kept in his study. A battered cardboard box held over two hundred folders containing handwritten outlines, drafts, and prayers as well as academic papers, published articles, and correspondence. The …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2006.

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

No abstract provided.

Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Fraud is a growing concern in the news business, especially in recent years where numerous journalism scandals rock its foundation. This paper examines the most prominent cases: Stephen Glass, the reporter for The New Republic newsmagazine who completely or partially fabricated 27 stories in the late ‘90s; Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was found to have plagiarized or made up his supposedly on-thescene reporting in 2003; and Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for her Washington Post story about a child heroin addict who, in actuality, did not exist. This paper will examine flaws …

Documentary Editing, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2006.

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

No abstract provided.

Communication And Freedom: Review Of The Correspondence Of John Dewey, Volumes 1-3: 1871-1952, Past Masters Series. Edited By Larry A. Hickman, General Editor; Barbara Levine, Editor; Anne Sharp, Editor; Harriet Furst Simon, Editor., Martin Coleman

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

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful," wrote American philosopher, psychologist, educator, social scientist, and political activist John Dewey (L.W.5.132). His enthusiasm for communication is apparent in the latest edition of The Correspondence of John Dewey. The CD-ROM contains over 21,600 letters as well as photographs, facsimiles, and assorted transcribed documents, including the FBI's 1943 report on Dewey, which notes that the "[s]ubject.. . apparently does nothing but write."

Moravians And Cherokees At Early Nineteenth-Century Springplace Mission, Georgia, Rowena Mcclinton

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

Moravian documents from Springplace, in particular the Gambold Springplace Diary, serve as examples of distinctiveness. The two-volume edition, The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 2 volumes, 7805-7873, and 7874-7827, now in press at the University of Nebraska Press, is evidence of just how intense times were for the Cherokees and their sojourners, the Moravians, who recorded those encounters almost daily for seventeen years.13 The first volume extends from 1805 to the beginning of the Creek War (1813); the second volume encompasses the following years, 1814-21. These diaries are, handwritten in German script, for the most part transcribed and translated …

Notes--The Times They Are A-Changin': Literary Documentary Editing In An Electronic Post-Structuralist World, Joel Myerson

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

I began working as a literary textual editor in the summer of 1968, my second year of graduate school at Northwestern University. At that time Northwestern housed The Writings of Herman Melville and I was taken on board as a trainee. I will always remember the shining moment when I realized that I had mastered the Hinman Collator and that a great future awaited me because of it. I spent the next three years working there, and in the next decade got up to speed on my own. I served as a vettor for the Center for Editions of American …

Recent Editions--Spring 2006

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.

Review Of New Ways Of Looking At Old Texts, Iii. Papers Of The Renaissance English Text Society, 1997-2001. Ed. W Speed Hill., Eric L. Saak

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

New Ways of Looking at Old Texts should be the proverb pasted on every editor's bathroom mirror. Yet here it is the third such title of a collection of essays, all special publications of the Renaissance English Text Society, and may very well, as its predecessor did, find its way onto "graduate reading lists, there being no alternatives." If one can take seriously the ADE mission as being "to provide a scholarly community for people interested in editing historical and literary texts and to promote the use of these records by students, teachers, and scholars," and can interpret that mission …

Documentary Editing, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2006--Front Matter

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

Cover--Photo of Adams National Historical Site--Title Page--Publication Information--Contents--Contributors

First Encounters With Documentary Editing, Or, Tales In Training, Amy Speckart

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

Which of these things is not like the other?

SELECTION, VERIFICATION, ANNOTATION, SEX, ALCOHOL, INDEXING

Asking this question of seasoned editors (at an ADE meeting) might skew the answers a bit. Or maybe I missed something when I attended Camp Edit. At least, that is how it seems having talked to several veterans of the Camp Edit of the 1970s, which had a level of camaraderie that quite exceeded my own, comparatively chaste experience a year ago.

In this and other ways, training programs in documentary editing under the aegis of the NHPRC have changed over time, reflecting changes in …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006.

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

No abstract provided.

Ade Committees 2006-2007

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Officers--Committees

Presidential Address--A Salute, Roger Bruns

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

I have enjoyed the presidency. It has been exhilarating. I especially loved the trips around the country in the Association's airplane-ADE One. This whole thing about being president has been heady. Of course there have been the lows. My job approval rating, for example-it is still around 8%. That hurts. At least ADE did not invade Iraq!

Ade Business Minutes, Quincy, Massachusetts, 20 October 2006-22 October 2006

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President's Report--Secretary's Report--Treasurer's Report--Committee Reports

Chronicling The Early Court: A Look Back At Project's End, Robert P. Frankel Jr.

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

As I speak here today, the end is definitely near for The Documentary History of the Supreme Court We have sent back the page proofs for the eighth and final volume and are now scurrying to complete the index. On 31 December, the project will officially go out of business. Of course, it would be difficult to claim that we have rushed these volumes into print. The project began in 1977. People invariably will say: "You are telling me that it has taken thirty years for you to do a history of just the first ten years of the Court." …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006--Front Matter

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

Cover--Photo of U.S. Supreme Court building--Title page--Publication information--Contents--Contributors

From Of The Gutter Of Obscenity: Review Of The Selected Papers Of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928. Edited By Esther Katz; Cathy Moran Hajo And Peter C. Engelman, Assistant Editors., Jimmy Wilkinson Meyer

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

Esther Katz, PhD, editor and director of New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project (MSPP), plans four volumes in this series, with MS's activities in the international birth control movement to appear in Volume Four. In 2004 the journal Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries included The Woman Rebel, 7900-7928 on its list of "Outstanding Academic Titles.,,3 Volume Two, Birth Control Comes of Age, released in March of 2007, covers MS's life and work between 1928 and 1939.4 The goal of the series, says Katz, is "to highlight Sanger's distinctive voice and illumine the multiple narratives of her life and …

Recent Editions--Winter 2006

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 28th Annual Meeting, Quincy, Massachusetts, 20-22 October 2006, Annual Meeting Session Summaries

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

Documentary Editing Online: Three Case Studies in Digitizing Legacy Volumes--Explaining Who We Are as Editors--Preparing the Next Generation of Editors--The Impact Editions Have Exerted on Scholarship--Rewriting New England's and Women's Literary History--"The Law Is ... Uninteresting and Boundless": Documentary Editions of Legal Papers

Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2006

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

The finances of the Association for Documentary Editing have improved over the last year. This year, we had an increase of $6,438 in the general budget, giving us unrestricted assets of nearly $61,000. This increase was a nice change from three consecutive years of minor deficit spending. The increase can be attributed to several things: first, there were approximately forty more dues-paying members this year; second, the dues increase was in effect for the entire year; third, interest rates more than doubled from the previous year; and finally, several of the expenditures were much less than budgeted. While the addition …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006--Index

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No abstract provided.

Ade Annual Meeting 2007 Preliminary Program And Schedule

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

2007 Conference was held in Richmond, Virginia November 16th to November 18th.

Announcement--Note From The Editor, Marianne S. Wokeck

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

Under the current circumstances of easy and widespread electronic communication, reduced budgets, and increasing costs for printing and postage, it seems practical as well as prudent to streamline the publication schedule of Documentary Editing by collapsing the Winter and Spring issues into one Spring issue (published in February) and the Summer and Fall issues into one Fall issue (published in August). The current issue (Volume 28, Number 4) brings the old schedule to a close; Volume 29 (2007) is transitional; and Volume 30 will appear under the new regimen of two installments that fit the rhythm of the academic calendar: …

Documentary Editing, Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2005.

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

No abstract provided.

Editing Military History In The Twenty-First Century, Edward G. Lengel

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

Military historians are not usually accused of worrying about trendiness. More typically they seem like stodgy traditionalists, scoffing at postmodernism and its various spin-offs and fantasizing about putting Foucault in the path of a cannonball at Gettysburg and shouting, "Deconstruct this!" At academic conferences and in university departments, military historians are outsiders: stubbornly following tales of great battles and dead white males while their presumably more "relevant" colleagues don red berets and scribble manifestos in smoke-filled rooms. Documentary editors who work in military history are, if anything, doubly outsiders: fearing either to venture into social history, or to join traditional …

Trials And Tribulations: As Found In The Journals Of Samuel Kirkland, Christine Sternberg Patrick

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

By day I edit the papers of George Washington, one of those increasingly popular dead white men. But on nights and weekends I spend my time with Samuel Kirkland, a not-so-popular dead white man whom I would classify as above-average. I was first introduced to Kirkland in the 1980s, and shortly thereafter I made him the topic of my dissertation. Although some might describe him as a "dour Presbyterian," I find him fascinating.

By now I am sure that most readers are wondering, who is Samuel Kirkland? and, why is he above-average? So let me briefly answer these questions before …

Notes--Putting Materials On The Web: A Primer For Editors, Felicia Johnson

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

Creating a web site begins with the collection of resources, either primary or secondary or a combination of the two. Before resources can be identified as valuable and pertinent to continued scholarly research in a specific area and made available on the web, several different kinds of people invested in the project meet to discuss goals and objectives. First, everyone in the group acknowledges the relevance and importance of the resources and agrees that making the resources more accessible on the web will enhance research in that area. Then, the group takes on the task of getting the materials on …