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A Northerner Transformed : Review Of The Fire Of Liberty In Their Hearts: The Diary Of Jacob E. Yoder Of The Freedmen's Bureau School Lynchburg, Virginia, 1866-1870. Samuel L. Horst, Ed., James H. Cook

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

It is hard to believe that ten years have passed since the publication of Eric Foner's magnum opus, Reconstruction: America} Unfinished Revolution, 1863- 1877. It seems like only yesterday that the historical profession first encountered what is now considered the definitive history of the postbellum era in the United States~ The main reason for this temporal illusion, of course, is that scholars have offered little or no revision of the main story Foner offered in 1988. Indeed, the book seems destined to go the route of C. Vann Woodward's monumental work, Origins of the New South, which survived unscathed for …

Characteristics Of Expert Web Site Developers : Creativity, Construction Of Meaning, And Problem Solving/Program Development, Nancy E. O'Daniel

Theses

This thesis examines the areas that determine what characteristics produce an expert Web developer. The focus of the study is in the following three areas: creativity, construction of meaning, and problem solving.

To date, no other formal study of this type has been reported. We know much about the World Wide Web itself, but nothing about the people who create the Web sites.

This thesis shows that the idea of an expert Web developer is a misconception. The top-rated sites seem to have been created by a team of developers, each bringing to the group a strength in at least …

Psychodynamics Of Language, Pamela Ann Margerm

Theses

This work examines the origins of our existing principles of communication to observe patterns of language and their causes. The study surveys twenty-five hundred-years of Western language and writing and its evolution through cultural interaction. The nature of this evolution is the topic of this thesis. There are four periods of time that are studied for their influence on language and writing: the Late Classical Period, the Early and Late Medieval Period, the Early Renaissance, and the Twentieth Century. The study revealed that language and writing have always had a significant metacognitive function within Western culture. Language and writing have …

Samuel Florman And Literature Of Technology, Paul F. Sharke

Theses

In 1996, engineer and author Samuel Florman asked why engineering and technology had been represented only lightly in literature. From a mere handful of books dealing with this topic, he named The Control of Nature (1989), by John McPhee, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), by Robert Pirsig, and The Soul of a New Machine (1981), by Tracy Kidder, as being among the best examples of a literary expression of engineering. These three works are examined here in light of Florman's own four books on the subject of engineering, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (1976), Blaming Technology …

Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1998.

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

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Documentary Editing, Volume 20, Number 1, March 1998--Front Matter

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1997 Ade Meeting Resolutions

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

Resolution of thanks to the organization of American Historians--Resolution of thanks to the American Historical Association--Resolution of thanks to Supporters of NHPRC Recommendation--A Resolution in Memory of George C. Rogers, Jr., 1922-1997--A Resolution in Memory of John Nives, 1921-1997

The Ade Annual Meeting Sessions, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1997

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

Joys and Horrors of Editing Scientists and Scientific Philosophers (Chair: Nathan Houser)--Forum on Federal Spending (Chair: Herman Saatkamp)--What Documentary Editions Can Tell Us and What They Cannot (Chair: Beverly Wilson Palmer)--Editors on the Web (Chair: Esther Katz)--Curating and Editing Ernest Hemingway (Chair: J. A. Leo Lemay) --Are Religious Records Different? Types, Transcriptions, Translations (Chair: Maureen Ursenbach Beecher) --The Epistemology of the Electronic Text (Chair: Julia Flander)

In Memoriam, Lillian B. Miller, 1923-1997

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

Lillian B. Miller, editor of the Peale Family Papers and Historian of American Culture at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 27 November 1997.

Minutes Of The Ade Annual Business Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 16 October 1997

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

Secretary's Report--Treasurer's Report--Committee Reports--New Business

In Memoriam, Hanna M. Bercovitch

Recent Editions--March 1998

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

"Recent Editions" attempts to provide an up-to-date, annotated bibliography of all scholarly editions of documents in the fields of English and American history, literature, and culture, starting with those published in 1992. The bibliography is generally restricted to works edited from manuscript, but other noteworthy books received may be listed.

Lyman H. Butterfield Award--1997

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

The 1997 Lyman H. Butterfield Award was presented to the Massachusetts Historical Society at the annual meeting of the Association. It was accepted by Louis L. Tucker. Ann Gordon made the presentation on behalf of the Association.

Margaret Fuller's Silences, Robert N. Hudspeth

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

Silences are editors' bad luck: someone before us loses the evidence; our subject outsmarts us and refuses to say what we want most to hear from her; we ask questions she never even thought to answer. Let me make up some biographical conclusions from my reading of Margaret Fuller's letters: first, she had no interest in radical abolitionism or even in more moderate antislavery efforts in New England. Second, she almost never read and cared nothing for Charles Dickens, the most popular writer of his time. Third, she never rode the horse trolleys in New York City during her twenty-month …

John Adams: On Paper And In Person, Gregg L. Lint

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

In 1774 John Adams was a thirty-nine-year-old Massachusetts lawyer of modest means, middling height, and portly physique, who was ambitious, argumentative, over-earnest, direct to the point of rudeness, and intolerant of fools. How did this man, seemingly unsympathetic and ordinary when compared to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, become by 1776 Congress's most influential member? Why was he named president of the Board of War and appointed to the committees that drafted the Treaty Plan of 1776 and the Declaration of Independence? Why was he then chosen to serve as a diplomat in Europe and later elected vice …

What About That Twenty-Year Gap?, Carolyn De Swarte Gifford

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

What is the twenty-year gap? There are no journal volumes from fall 1870 until January 1893. After filling more than forty volumes-nearly five thousand pages detailing her life from her fifteenth through her thirty-first years, Frances E. Willard suddenly stopped keeping a journal. On her thirty-first birthday, 28 September 1870, she wrote: "[M]y Journal has this day been shaken hands with in a long adieu, and I here record my purpose to write no more wishy-washy pages of personal reminiscence." Then, just as suddenly, on New Year's Day 1893 she took up her journal again. "It is now over 20 …

Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year 1996-97

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Income--Expenses--Guide to Documentary Editing Revision Project--Julian P. Boyd Award Fund--Jo Ann Boydston Award Fund

Electronic Research Administration : Implementation At New Jersey Institute Of Technology, Lauren V. Rethwisch

Theses

Electronic Research Administration has become the current focus and future direction of the professional field of research administration. It is commonly acknowledged that by the end of this century, all administrative grant functions will be performed by means of electronic data interchange. How well positioned is New Jersey Institute of Technology, a mid-size public research university, to implement pre-award Electronic Research Administration? My research evaluates the readiness of the university community to convert its various pre-award manual processes to an on-line system. The proposed evaluation takes place through a series of internal questionnaires and structured interviews with subject matter experts. …

Nineteenth-Century American Housekeeping Books : Women's Workplace Manuals Historical Research In Technical Writing, Melanie C. Woods

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes three American housekeeping books—Lydia Maria Child's The American Frugal Housewife, Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's The American Woman's Home, and Helen Campbell Stuart's The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking—as historical examples of technical writing. The study follows current recommendations for historical research in the field, namely, to analyze technical writing texts in consideration of their historical context. This involves determining what constituted technical writing in the nineteenth century; considering the publishing context of the study; and applying this definition to analyze three housekeeping books as technical manuals. These texts exemplify technical writing …