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Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 31: 2010

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

Volume 31, 2010 *The Association for Documentary Editing is pleased to announce that with Volume 31 (2010) Documentary Editing, formerly a quarterly publication, becomes an annual journal.*

Articles

• Experiencing Women’s History as a Documentary Editor, Ann D. Gordon
• The Almanacks of Mary Moody Emerson: A Scholarly Digital Edition, Noelle A. Baker and Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
• “Dangerous Thoughts”: Margaret Sanger’s World Trip Journal, Japan, 1922, Peter C. Engelman
• Models of Digital Documentation: The Nineteenth-Century Concord Digital Archive, Amy E. Earhart

Boydston Prize Winner

• The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition and the Full Scores that Never Were, Robert Broude

Review Essay

• Dearest …

Review Of Irish Immigrants In The Land Of Canaan: Letters And Memoirs From Colonial And Revolutionary America, 1675–1815. Written And Edited By Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, And David N. Doyle., James M. Perry

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

The Irish Diaspora and the influx of Irish immigrants to North America have received much attention in recent decades. The multitudes of Irish- Catholics arriving in the middle nineteenth century in the aftermath of Ireland’s Potato Famine have received the majority of this scholarly attention. In Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan, Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle tackle an often overlooked aspect of the Irish migration to North America, the largely Protestant immigrants arriving before the American Revolution and in its immediate aftermath. Using letters, and occasionally other sources such as personal …

In Memoriam: W. W. Abbot (1922–2009), Making Something Of Life, Philander D. Chase

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

George Washington, Bill Abbot wrote in his 1989 essay “An Uncommon Awareness of Self,” “saw life as something a person must make something of.” Several years of patiently editing Washington’s pre-Revolutionary papers had left Bill “with the impression of a man driven to master every aspect of his life and to make the most of what life offered.” Anyone who had the privilege of working with Bill Abbot, particularly during his long and distinguished documentary editing career spanning the last third of his life, is left with a similar impression of Bill himself.

Matthew J. Bruccoli (1931–2008), Joel Myerson

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

Matt Bruccoli joined the English department at the University of South Carolina in 1969, and retired in 2005 as the Emily Brown Jefferies Distinguished Professor of English. As his obituary in the New York Times noted, he “continued to cut a dash on campus, instantly recognizable by his vintage red Mercedes convertible, Brooks Brothers suits, Groucho mustache and bristling crew cut that dated to his Yale days. His untamed Bronx accent also set him apart.” As a scholar, Matt published widely on James Gould Cozzens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, and John O’Hara. Matt knew more about F. …

Lyman H. Butterfield Award For 2009 Presented To Gregg L. Lint, Mary Jo Kline

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

Now I will begin leaking details that will enable you to confirm your suspicions, for by now many of you will have guessed that this year’s recipient of the Lyman H. Butterfield Award is Gregg L. Lint. The project where he has spent his entire career as an editor is, of course, the Adams Papers, whose staff he joined in the fall of 1975. He recently completed work on the fifteenth volume of The Papers of John Adams, the series with which he has been most closely identified. He has been the “lead editor” responsible for volumes in that series …

J. A. Leo Lemay (1935–2008), A Remembrance, Kevin J. Hayes

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

My first semester in graduate school at the University of Delaware I took J. A. Leo Lemay’s Edgar Allan Poe seminar. Writing a seminar paper on the subject of Poe’s use of frontier imagery in his short fiction, I happened to read Prof. Lemay’s essay “The Frontiersman from Lout to Hero” (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 88 [1978]: 187-223). In terms of its breadth of knowledge and depth of insight, I found this essay astonishing. As an undergraduate I had read much about the American frontier, a special interest of mine, but Prof. Lemay’s essay was the single best …

Review Of The Papers Of Joseph Henry, Volume 11: January 1866–May 1878: The Smithsonianbyears. Edited By Marc Rothenberg; Kathleen W. Dorman, Associate Editor; Frank R. Millikan, Assistant Editor; Deborah Y. Jeffries And Sarah Shoenfeld, Research Assistants., Julie R. Newell

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

This volume brings to an end a forty-year project that is both a tremendous contribution to the content and practice of the history of American science and a monument to the talents, commitment, and perseverance of its editors. The list of sponsoring institutions provides some indication of the perceived value of this project across a range of academic disciplines: the Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. Twelve volumes in all including the index, the series traces the life of Joseph Henry (1797–1878) from his education and early academic employment in Albany, New York, through …

Life Service Award Presented To Rich Leffler, John P. Kaminski

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

I have known Rich Leffler for more than forty years. We both came to the University of Wisconsin in 1967 as graduate students in the Department of History. He came from New York and I from Chicago. Rich started to work informally with the Ratification project in 1969–70, when he went to Raleigh, North Carolina, to do research on his dissertation. He searched libraries for the Ratification project, the First Federal Elections project, and the First Federal Congress project. Officially, Rich started to work full time on the project in 1973, first as a researcher, then as assistant editor, associate …

Experiencing Women’S History As A Documentary Editor, Ann D. Gordon

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

This is a modest revision of a paper written for a panel on the past and future of historical editing at the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing in 2008. I thank Esther Katz for reading it in my stead. Richard Leffler edited the original and made valuable recommendations. This list of the women whose papers have received editorial treatment is not an exhaustive one. For Addams, see The Jane Addams Papers [microfilm] , ed. Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1984), and The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, eds. Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, …

“Dangerous Thoughts”? Margaret Sanger’S World Trip Journal, Japan, 1922, Peter C. Engelman

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

Sanger’s longest and, I would argue, most significant piece of travel writing was her 1922 World Trip Journal, which chronicles her six-month tour to discuss birth control in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong and Ceylon, with stops in Yemen and Egypt, vacation time on the European continent, and a major conference in London. Coming just a few months after she formed the American Birth Control League in New York, the world tour raised Sanger’s international profile and gave her increased prominence at home, solidifying her leadership of the American movement. My focus in what follows is on the first leg …

Models Of Digital Documentation: The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive, Amy E. Earhart

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

As with many digital archives, The 19th-Century Digital Concord Archive (CDA) started as a website utilizing simple technology and has evolved to a more technologically advanced scholarly site. The CDA joins an interdisciplinary team from the Department of English, Texas A&M University; the Digital Humanities Initiative, the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University; the Map and GIS Collections and Services, Texas A&M University Libraries; and the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts, in the development of infrastructures that allow the entities to share metadata easily, develop innovative, visually-based search functions, and make visible and accessible the cultural record of …

Editing Sophia Peabody’S Cuba Journal: Travel, Recovery, And Interpretation, Jana L. Argersinger, Cheryl J. Fish

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

Some collaborations are born out of chance encounters. For us, it happened at a recent conference of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. Having briefly met before on the common ground of studies in nineteenth- century American literature, we said “Hello” and discovered in the space of a five-minute conversation that both of us had our eyes on the early nineteenth- century journal-account of a young New Englander’s rest cure in Cuba. The traveler who authored the journal was Sophia Amelia Peabody (1809–1871), an accomplished visual artist, writer, member of a family that was vitally involved in …

Review Of The Papers Of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents And Cases. Edited By Daniel W. Stowell, Susan Krause, John A. Lupton, Stacy Pratt Mcdermott, Christopher A. Schnell, Dennis E. Suttles, Kelley B. Clausing, And R. Dan Monroe., Anthony M. Joseph

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

Lincoln’s long career as a lawyer has been as much the subject of winsome anecdote as comprehensive scholarly study—an unhappy balance caused in part by the lack of readily accessible documents bearing on his practice. That problem, however, was remedied in stunning fashion with the publication in 2000 of the massive digital edition of Lincoln’s legal papers, The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (LPAL). The LPAL produced more than 96,000 searchable documents spanning over 5,000 cases and nearly 500 nonlitigation activities through the course of Lincoln’s legal career. The present selective letterpress edition in four volumes continues the same tradition …

Review Of The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839. Edited By Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-Mcgee, And Richard L. Jensen., Kenneth P. Minkema

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

With the long-anticipated appearance of the first volume of The Joseph Smith Papers, a landmark project in American religious history and in Mormon Studies commences. Containing the scribal and printed remains of the founder and organizer of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Joseph Smith Papers, when completed, will amount to some thirty-two volumes—a phenomenal undertaking in an age when the magisterial, multi-volume printed edition is an endangered species. Under the general editorship of distinguished historians Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman, the edition is arranged in six series: Journals, Documents, Revelations and …

Recent Editions, Margaret A. Hogan

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.

Association For Documentary Editing Business Meeting, 15 October 2009, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Illinois

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

Local Arrangements Committee--President’s Report--Secretary’s Report--Treasurer’s Report--Publications Committee Report--E-newsletter--Meetings Committee Report--Federal Policy Committee Report--New Business

Contributors

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

Contributors to Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing, Volume 31: 2010

Review Of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume I: The Human Rights Years, 1945–1948; Allida M. Black, Editor; John F. Sears And Mary Jo Binker, Associate Editors; Craig Daigle And Michael Weeks, Assistant Editors, And Christopher Alhambra, Electronic Editor, Kathlleen Dalton

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

The publication of the first volume of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (ERPP), edited by Allida Black and her associates at George Washington University, is an event of the utmost significance to documentary editors and historians alike. Nothing like this pathbreaking volume exists in the ER literature, and this resource will forever change the research landscape. This volume stands for documentary editing at its best, and the larger ERPP itself, with its informative website and teacher training workshops, is a model of the highest editorial scholarship applied innovatively to the mission of public education.

Association For Documentary Editing 2008–9 Annual Plan

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

The ADE is at an important crossroads. Much has changed in the documentary editing profession in the past three decades. New methods of publication have emerged; the era of the large projects is diminishing; and the number of users of published historical documents has exploded as a result of the Web. Many more people are engaged in the practices that we call documentary editing (the selection, transcription, and explication of documents), but these same individuals don’t define their work or their profession as such. Scholars use new and changing tools to produce their work in ways that weren’t imaginable when …

Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 30, Fall And Winter, Numbers 3 And 4: 2008-2009-Front Matter

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Front matter -- Officers -- Publication Committee -- Editorial Staff -- Table of Contents -- Contributors

Association For Documentary Editing Business Meeting, 23 October 2008, Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona And 2009 Annual Meeting, Springfield, Illinois, October 15–17, 2009

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

Association for Documentary Editing:

• Business Meeting, 23 October 2008, Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona
• 2009 Annual Meeting, Springfield, Illinois, October 15–17, 2009

President’S Letter 2009 : Documentary Editing Is Alive And Well, Cathy Moran Hajo

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

As experienced editors, we sometimes see change as a negative—complaining about the paucity of funding, or about the new requirements that digital publishing has forced on our projects. But when you meet so many enthusiastic newcomers, it is hard to remain a pessimist.We have made great strides in the last thirty years, bringing our editions to a far broader segment of the public than the founders of ADE had ever thought possible.We have honed our practices, paving the way for new editors to follow using our publications in microfilm, book, and digital format as examples of best practices, a massive …

Documentary Editing: Journal Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 30, Fall And Winter, Numbers 3 And 4

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No abstract provided.

Review Of The Moravian Springplace Mission To The Cherokees, Volume I, 1805–1813 And The Moravian Springplace Mission To The Cherokees, Volume Ii, 1814–1821. Edited And With An Introduction By Rowena Mcclinton; Preface By Chad Smith., Angela Pulley Hudson

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

Noted historian William G. McLoughlin once observed that in addition to mirroring U.S. political structures, the nineteenth-century Cherokee Nation shared two other trends with the young Republic: slavery and Christianity.1 Indeed, even as Cherokee people fought to retain their eastern lands in the first decades of the nineteenth century, they often adopted the ideologies of the land-hungry Americans they tried to resist. Few sources document this complex and contradictory process more vividly than The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. Rarely do Cherokee, Christian, and slave histories appear in such intimate relation to one another. In the secondary works on …

Presidential Address--Why Documentary Editing Matters, Michael E. Stevens

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

The title of my talk tonight is “Why Documentary Editing Matters.” The question I seek to answer is critical, especially in an era that has seen rapid change in how we make information accessible.We need to know the answer to the question in order to explain our work to funders. But we also must also explain to ourselves why we choose to dedicate our energies to this endeavor. The significance of what we do is not based on how we publish our work, but in the value we add.

President’S Letter 2008: Moving Forward, Michael E. Stevens

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

This past summer, the ADE’s Planning Committee met in Madison for three days to discuss the Association’s future. The group had previously developed background papers, and while in Madison they built on that work. The conversations were stimulating, and participants’ opinions changed as the pros and cons of different ideas were weighed. In the end, the group agreed upon a strategic direction and an action plan for the Association. The plan is printed elsewhere in this issue as well as at www.documentaryhistory.org. I urge you to give it a close read and to think about ways you might want to …

One-Dimensional History, Denton L. Watson

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

I began attending the annual ADE conference on a regular basis in 2000. Since then, I have often wondered how many of you have been aware of my distinction? The lone black in a sea of white. Not the first, of course, just the lone one. Nevertheless, I have always reveled in my distinction, even though, to be truthful, I would have welcomed some company. My distinction, I am sure, has been due to the reality that I am one of just a tiny handful of black documentary editors, which has been the result of a combination of factors. I …

In Memoriam, Thomas E. Dulan, Charlene Bickford, Mary Jo Kline, Raymond W. Smock

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Beverly Runge--Larry I. Bland--John Y. Simon

Recent Editions, Linnéa Caproni

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

This semiannual 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.

In The Beginning: Ade And The Big Bang Revolution, Roger Burns

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

Welcome to the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for Documentary Editing. Some people have compared the origins of the ADE with the American Revolution. Others have linked it to the big bang theory. I prefer to think of it as a Big Bang Revolution. Anyway, today you will get a little of the inside story of the creation of ADE. You see, I was there. And with me today are three individuals who have joined the ADE at different times in its history. Charlene Bickford, editor of the First Congress Project, who was also …