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The Short Happy Thesis Of G. Thomas Tanselle, Don L. Cook
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 It is instead a Xerox copy of Tom Tanselle's article "The Editing of Historical Documents" as it appeared in the 1978 volume of Studies in Bibliography.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 …
Editorial Practices--An Historian's View, Robert J. Taylor
Editorial Practices--An Historian's View, Robert J. Taylor
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
All those engaged in the editing of literary and historical documents are deeply in debt to Dr. Tanselle for his thorough analysis of the editorial standards that have been set for the dozens of projects now going forward. Somewhat to the embarrassment of the profession, he has seized upon individual statements of editorial practice that have internal inconsistencies and that are in conflict with the editor's actual practice. And although his article, now before us for discussion, is aimed primarily at the shortcomings of historical editors, he has not let the literary fraternity escape unscathed, some of whom, he finds, …
Dearth And Bias: Issues In The Editing Of Ethnohistorical Materials, Patricia Galloway
Dearth And Bias: Issues In The Editing Of Ethnohistorical Materials, Patricia Galloway
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
It is in these two problem areas, lack of material and ethnocentric bias, that the historical editor can best offer help to the ethnohistorian. The importance of any single early colonial document containing description of preliterate peoples in North America is almost incalculable. In some few instances our knowledge of the very existence of individual tribes rests upon such a single document. 5 For this reason the historical editor should consider the needs of ethnohistory when he is choosing documents to edit for publication. The modern growth of interest in social history has broken the hold of the "Great White …
"Goodbye Gutenberg" Part 2
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
This is the conclusion of a summary of "Modern Technology and Historical Editing: National Historical Publications and Records Commission Word Processing Conference, " held in Philadelphia in May 1981.
Review Of The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts Of The War For IndependenceJohn C. Dann, Ed., Constance B. Schulz
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. …
Editors And Critics, John Y. Simon
Editors And Critics, John Y. Simon
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
John Y. Simon delivered this address as outgoing president of the Association for Documentary Editing at the third annual meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, in October 1981.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 3, September 1981
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 3, September 1981
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 4, December 1981.
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.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 1, February 1981.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 1, February 1981.
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 2, May 1981.
Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 3, Number 2, May 1981.
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
No abstract provided.
Proposed Editing Manual: Background, David J. Nordloh
Proposed Editing Manual: Background, David J. Nordloh
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
In his presidential address at the ADE meeting in Princeton in November 1979, Arthur Link suggested that the profession's most obvious need was for "an authoritative manual on documentary editing." As a first step, Lester Cappon, the incoming president, suggested the formation of a committee whose first objective would be to determine the practicability of ADE producing a manual, and whose next objective (assuming the first was decided in the affirmative) would be to prepare a set of preliminary guidelines to be discussed at the annual meeting in Williamsburg in October 1980. Richard Showman (Nathanael Greene Papers) agreed to chair …
"Goodbye Gutenberg" Part 1
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
Such was the title of a recent PBS program on the current information revolution made possible by electronics. Some of the opportunities which this technology offers to historical editors were explored at a conference in Philadelphia on 4-5 May 1981 entitled "Modern Technology and Historical Editing: National Historical Publications and Records Commission Word Processing Conference." The program focused on the use of word processors and computers by historical editors to expedite the publication of multi-volume printed editions.