Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
For projects to publish online editions of historical records.
FY 2023
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
$160,000 to support the Papers of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Project staff will advance editorial work on Volumes 13 (1835) and 14 (1836), and expand the New Jackson Document Discoveries and Native Voices sections of the Papers of Andrew Jackson website. (PE-103538)
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ
$160,000 to support the Jane Addams Papers Project, American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. Project staff will advance editorial work on documents from 1927-1928; complete editorial work on and submit Volume 5 for publication; and begin selection for Volumes 6 -7. (PE-103540)
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
$110,000 to support a selective digital edition of the Papers of William Short. After serving as Jefferson’s secretary, William Short (1759-1849) became a career diplomat and successful financier and philanthropist. Project staff will complete the identification and collection of the remaining Short correspondence and papers held in smaller repositories; complete cataloging of documents for 1778-1810; advance editorial and translation work on documents spanning years 1778-1795. (PE-103552)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
$160,000 to support the Freedmen and Southern Society Project on the history of emancipation. Project staff will bring Volume 7 (Law and Justice) to near completion and advance editorial work for Volume 8 (Family and Kinship). (PE-103555)
Villanova University
Villanova, PA
$120,000 to support Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery project which aims to identify, digitize, transcribe, and publish ads placed in newspapers across the United States (and beyond) by formerly enslaved people searching for family members and loved ones after emancipation. During the grant year, the project will publish an additional 500 new advertisements; complete all remaining work for its website redesign; and expand its education resources including teacher workshops and presentations at social studies conferences; and assist in the submission of a narrative non-fiction book proposal. (PE-103559)
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
Springfield, IL
$150,000 to support the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States. Project staff advance will advance editorial work for an additional 500 documents selected for publication in the Campaign Digital Edition ; and capture images of new documents in repositories and private collections as they become available. (PE-103565)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
$160,000 to support the Thomas A. Edison Papers, noted American inventor and entrepreneur. Project staff will complete the manuscript for Volume 10; ; select and transcribe 150 of 300 documents for Volume 11. In addition, staff will edit the years 1925–1927 of the Edison General File; complete processing and uploading images from 44 microfilm reels of Part 5; and add approximately 610 item-set PDFs from Outside Repository Collections and Edison-Miller. (PE-103568)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$160,000 to support the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, a national leader in civil rights. Project staff will complete all remaining editorial work for Volume 8 and submit the completed manuscript to University of California Press. Working with the University of Virginia’s Center for Digital Editing, project staff will migrate its online edition, including all existing King Papers content, to a newly installed and customized Drupal 9 Platform module. (PE-103570)
Cumberland University
Lebanon, TN
$150,027 to support the Papers of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States. Project staff will publish all 646 documents in Digital Edition Series 4 (U.S. Senator); advance editorial work on Digital Edition Series 7 (Vice President), Series 13 (Move to Free Soil Party), and Series 14 (Retirement); complete and submit to press the final manuscript for Selected Papers of Martin Van Buren, Volume 1 (1782-1820); and complete document selection for Volume 2 (1821-1836). (PE-103574)
The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA $150,050
To support the Presidential Recordings project at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. Project staff will create verified transcriptions for 360 conversations (38 hours) from the Lyndon B. Johnson tape recordings, spanning the period April – June 1965; and complete all copyediting and final edits for publication and deliver the manuscript to the publisher. (PE-103575)
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
$160,000 to support the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Digital Documentary Edition. Project staff will complete editorial work on and publish 603 documents from Humphreys Correspondence & Papers and 612 documents from the Alcorn Correspondence & Papers; create and verify transcription for 1,200 documents in the Ames Correspondence Papers. (PE-103580)
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN
$132,412 to edit the Frederick Douglass Papers, a leading orator, abolitionist, social reformer, writer, and statesman. Project staff will complete the manuscript for Journalism and Other Writings Series, Volume 2 and complete the final production steps for publication of Correspondence Series, Volume 4 (1881-1888); and advance editorial work for Correspondence Series, Volume 5; add an additional 750 unpublished letters from 1853-1865 and 100 from 1866-1880 to the digital edition; and upload to the corrected text, annotation, and textual notes for Autobiographical Writings Series, Vol. 2 and Journalism and Other Writings, Vol. 1. (PE-103585)
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL
$155,088 to support the Papers of Roger Taney: A Digital Documentary Edition. Project editors are developing a free, publicly accessible, annotated, 9-volume digital edition of the personal and professional papers of jurist and Fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During the proposed grant year, project staff will accession an additional 1,500 documents; transcribe an additional 2,000 manuscript pages; and advance editorial work on 200 of 300 documents selected for Volume 1: The Bank War. (PE-103586)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
$159,792 to support the Charles Chesnutt Archives. During the proposed grant year, project staff will advance its editorial work on 250 items of correspondence to and from Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), a pioneering African American writer, lawyer, and voting rights activist, to be published to the Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive. Project staff also will update the comprehensive catalog and conduct promotional outreach activities to build awareness of Chesnutt and the legacy of his writing in Cleveland. (PE-103596)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$160,000 to support the Papers of James Madison, fourth president of the United States. Project staff will publish volumes 13 and 14 of the Secretary of State Series,bring volume 15 to near completion, and advance editorial work on volume 16; complete the editing of volume 5 of the Retirement Series and commence work on volume 6; advance editorial work on the new edition of the 1840 text of The Papers of James Madison; and complete final checks and publish Madison’s “Notes on Salkeld.” (PE-103600)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$160,000 to support the Papers of George Washington, first president of the United States. Project staff will publish volumes 32, 33, and 34 of the Revolutionary War Series; advance editorial work on the next three volumes; add volume 29 and part of 30 to the digital edition; and add at least 40 new George Washington letters to the digital edition. (PE-103601)
University of Delaware
Newark, DE
$215,085 to support the John Dickinson Writings Project, which is editing and publishing The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, the “Penman of the American Revolution.” Project editors will advance editorial work on Volume 4; commence development work on the project’s digital edition; and develop and implement a content metadata schema.
(PE-103602)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$160,000 to support The Chinese American WWII Veterans Online Resource, an online resource and archive that will bring together information drawn from U.S. military service records, including enlistment, separation, and discharge records, as well as information from private records on the more than 22,000 Chinese and Chinese Americans who served in World War II. During the proposed grant period, project staff will advance metadata creation and cross-referencing for an additional 6,000 service records; create content folders, clear publications rights, import, and process metadata for 12,000 veteran service records and newly-acquired source materials; and verify 3,650 tombstones of Chinese and Chinese Hawaiians as potential WWII veterans. (PE-103603)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$160,000 to support a project to edit and publish the Papers of Julian Bond. A pioneering voice in American politics for some five decades, Julian Bond (1940-2015) was a civil rights advocate, legislator, and teacher. During the proposed grant period, the project will hire and train students on digital imaging and editorial work; scan, upload, and ready metadata for material from 200 folders; and verify and launch 120 transcriptions from Series 1. (PE-103604)
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI $160,000
To support a project to edit and publish The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Adoption of the Bill of Rights. During the grant year, editors will complete all editorial work for and begin indexing Volume 4 of the Bill of Rights series; advance editorial work for Volume 5; and work with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center to add supplementary documents for two additional states to its digital collections. (PD-103480)
Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, MA $160,000
To support a project to edit and publish The Adams Papers, a selective edition of the papers of John Adams and the Adams Family. During the grant year, editorial staff will complete all editorial work on and publish Adams Family Correspondence Volume 16; advance editorial work for Volume 17; complete the calendar and selection of documents for the Papers of John Adams, Volume 23; and publish 301 documents from PJA Volume 20 to the Adams Papers Digital Edition. (PD-103491)
Kentucky Historical Society
Frankfort, KY $87,240
To support a project to edit and publish the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition. During the grant year, editorial staff will establish authoritative transcriptions for 500 documents; add 350 newly transcribed and double-proofed documents; publish 400 fully-annotated documents to its digital edition; and with a selection of ~100 documents, develop interpretive resources for researchers and students on the topic of crime and punishment. (PD-103500)
American University
Washington, DC $115,500
To support a project to edit the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore and produce digital and print editions of letters to and from the 12th and 13th U.S. presidents. During the grant year, the project will locate, image, and accession an additional 50 letters; complete second-pass proofreading of 167 transcribed letters; annotate 200 letters; and locate, image, and accession 50 letters not on Fillmore microfilm edition (PD-103503)
FY 2022
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN
$117,781 to edit the Frederick Douglass Papers, a leading orator, abolitionist, social reformer, writer, and statesman. Project staff will advance editorial work on the Correspondence Series, completing and submitting the Volume 4 manuscript to press, and continuing annotation work for Volume 5; complete all remaining annotation for Volume 2 of Journalism and Other Writings Series; and continue the migration to its new Frederick Douglass Papers Digital Edition. (PE-103394)
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
$150,000 to support the Papers of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Project staff will complete all final production work on Volume 12 (1834); advance editorial work on Volume 13 (1835); and expand the New Jackson Document Discoveries and Native Voices sections of the Papers of Andrew Jackson website. (PE-103395)
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ
$150,000 to support the Jane Addams Papers, American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. Project staff will digitize, transcribe, verify metadata, and proofread documents from 1927-1928; submit the selective print edition Volume 4 manuscript to press; and complete research and annotation work on Volume 5. (PE-103401)
Cumberland University
Lebanon, TN
$149,968 to support the Papers of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States. Project staff will publish the remaining documents in Series 3 and 4; verify metadata for ~2,500 documents in Series 6; transcribe 1,000 documents in Series 12; and complete the front matter, appendices, and index for Volume 1 of the Selected Papers of Martin Van Buren. (PE-103402)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$150,000 to support the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, a national leader in civil rights. Project staff will annotate, incorporate reader comments, and complete the introduction and front matter for Volume 8 (Sept. 1962 – Dec. 1963); complete edit of the calendar of documents, complete outstanding research tasks, and fact check front matter, annotations, and chronology for Volume 8; and conduct research and document collection for Volume 9 (1964). (PE-103405)
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
$110,000 to support a selective digital edition of the Papers of William Short. After serving as Jefferson’s secretary, William Short (1759-1849) became a career diplomat and successful financier and philanthropist. Project staff will complete the identification and collection of the Short correspondence and papers held in smaller repositories; catalog documents spanning the period 1778-1810; select documents to be published online; and complete all preparations and planning. (PE-103407)
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
$100,000 to complete the Pinckney Statesmen of South Carolina digital edition. The completed four-volume “born-digital” edition will include an estimated 3,000 fully transcribed and annotated documents related to the brothers Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Pinckney, and their cousin, Charles Pinckney, for the period 1769-1828. Project staff will complete final selection of addenda documents, calendar items, and financial records related to enslaved people on Pinckney plantations for inclusion in the Pinckney-Horry and Pinckney Statesmen editions; complete all transcription, summaries, final review and other pre-publication work for all addenda documents and financial records; and acquire permissions for all selected materials to be added to the Pinckney-Horry and Pinckney Statesmen editions. (PE-103417)
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$124,880 to support the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States. Project staff will add Volume 45 to its electronic editions (UVA Press/Rotunda and Founders Online); publish Volume 46 in print format; bring Volume 47 to near completion and add documents to the “Selected Documents” section of the project’s website; complete all pre-publication work for print Volume 48; and advance editorial work for Volumes 49-51. In addition, the project will continue to work with the UVA Center for Digital Editing (CDE) to add content related to the Jefferson’s Weather and Climate Records Digital Edition. (PE-103421)
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
Springfield, IL
$148,000 to support the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States. Project staff advance editorial work for the Campaign Digital Edition and associated digital library; tandem oral-proof and annotate 600 documents; write biographies of associated people, places, organizations, and events found in the same 600 documents; fact check, sense read, and publish 600 documents and associated biographies; and capture images of new documents in repositories and private collections as they become available. (PE-103422)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
$150,000 to support the Thomas A. Edison Papers, noted American inventor and entrepreneur. Project staff will advance editorial work on the Edison General File for the years 1925-1926; add 23 Edison Pocket Notebooks to its digital image editions, and upload approximately 41,000 images; add outside repository collections and Edison-Miller Family Papers; and complete the Volume 10 manuscript. (PE-103425)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$150,000 to support the Papers of James Madison, fourth president of the United States. Project staff will Publish volumes 13 and 14 of the Secretary of State Series and commence editorial work on volumes 15 and 16; edit volume 5 of the Retirement Series and commence work on volume 6; plan a new edition of the 1840 text of The Papers of James Madison; and complete editing of Madison’s “Notes on Salkeld.” (PE-103433)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$150,000 to support the Papers of George Washington, first president of the United States. Project staff will publish volumes 30 and 31 of the Revolutionary War Series; submit the manuscript for volume 32 to press; advance editorial work on volumes 33-35; complete index integration of volumes 28-29 to the digital edition; and add at least 40 newly found George Washington letters. (PE-103434)
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
$150,000 to support the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Digital Documentary Edition. This edition will ultimately contain nearly 20,000 documents sent and received by the Mississippi governors from late 1859 to early 1882. Project staff will advance editorial work on nearly 5,500 documents in the Postwar Governors Collections; Clark Correspondence & Telegrams; and Sharkey Letters and Petitions; and complete technical planning for creation of subject-based data visualizations. (PE-103444)
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL
$87,500 to support the Papers of Roger Taney: A Digital Documentary Edition. Project editors are developing a free, publicly accessible, annotated, 9-volume digital edition of the personal and professional papers of jurist and Fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During the proposed grant year, project staff will accession an additional 1,250 documents; transcribe an additional 1,500 manuscript pages; and advance editorial work on Volume 1: The Bank War. (PE-103449)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
$130,544 to support “Walt Whitman’s Complete Correspondence,” bringing together for the first time all incoming and outgoing correspondence from the poet. Project staff will catalog and transcribe 80 “new” letters; complete cataloging for the Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction periods; complete all remaining annotation work for the Complete Correspondence, including links to relevant resources; and publish 605 newly completed letters on the Walt Whitman Archive. (PE-103450)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
$150,000 to support the Einstein Papers Project, a print and electronic edition of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, scientist and humanitarian. Project editors will add Volume 16 (June 1929-Nov. 1930); advance editorial and translation work on Volume 17 (June 1929-Nov. 1930), bringing that volume to near completion; and complete transcription of ~1,700 documents for Volume 18 (Jan.-Dec. 1931). (PE-103459)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$140,048 to support The Chinese American WWII Veterans Online Resource, an online resource and archive that will bring together information drawn from U.S. military service records, including enlistment, separation, and discharge records, as well as information from private records on the more than 22,000 Chinese and Chinese Americans who served in World War II. During the proposed first year of work, project staff will aggregate all existing project content and metadata into a new Drupal database and build the associated search capabilities of the digital edition. (PD-103373)
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI $160,000
To support a project to edit and publish The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Adoption of the Bill of Rights. During the grant year, editors will publish Volume 2 of the Bill of Rights series and advance editorial work on Volumes 3 and 4. Additionally, the project will work with the University of Wisconsin Libraries Digital Collections Center (UWDCC) to add supplementary documents for two additional states to its digital collections, and continue its educational outreach programing. (PD-103330)
Kentucky Historical Society
Frankfort, KY $91,240
To support a project to edit and publish the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition. During the proposed grant period, project staff will establish authoritative transcriptions for 600 documents; add 200 newly transcribed and double-proofed documents; and publish 400 fully-annotated and fact-checked documents to its digital edition. Working with a selection of ~100 CWGK documents, project staff also will develop interpretive resources for researchers and students in African American history. (PD-103357)
George Washington University
Washington, DC $160,000
To support a project to edit and publish the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. During the proposed grant period, editorial staff will commence annotation work for Volume 4 (1956-1959); complete transcription and partial collation of Roosevelt’s memoir, On My Own, to be included in Volume 5 (1960-1962); and complete document search in the FDR Library’s Financial Record Series.
(PD-103359)
Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, MA $160,000
To support a project to edit The Adams Papers, a selective edition of the papers of John Adams and the Adams Family. During the proposed grant period, editorial staff will publish Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 16; complete document selection for Volume 17; complete all collation and annotation work, procure illustrations, and begin critical read for Papers of John Adams Volume 22; and prepare XML files for and publish 278 documents from AFC volume 14 to the Adams Papers Digital Edition. (PD-103363)
Presidential Recordings Project
Charlottesville, VA $92,420
To support the Presidential Recordings project at the Miller Center of Public Affairs to transcribe, annotate, and publish conversations from the nearly 5,000 hours of secret presidential recordings made during the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. During the grant period, the editors will transcribe and annotate 25 hours of recorded material from the secret White House recordings for several administrations: 14 hours from the Johnson tapes, 8 hours from the Roosevelt tapes, and 3 hours from the Reagan tapes. (PD-103364)
American University
Washington, DC $77,750
To support a project to edit the Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore and produce digital and print editions of letters to and from the 12th and 13th U.S. presidents. During the proposed grant year, the project will locate, image, and accession an additional 200 letters, complete canvassing, selection, transcription, and first-pass verification for all Volume 1 (1844-1848) documents; and complete 100% of second-pass proofreading and 50% of annotation for 200 letters. (PD-103367)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD $65,698
To support a project to edit and publish Slavery, Law, and Power: Struggles over Justice and Democracy in the Anglo-Atlantic World, a newly conceived, selective edition that aims to provide intellectual access to essential, geographically-distant, and largely inaccessible documents. The documents are drawn from repositories in the U.S. and abroad, including the United Kingdom, Europe, and Barbados and focus on the British imperial and ideological origins of North American slavery and politics in the 17th and 18th centuries. During the grant period, staff will advance editorial work on an additional selection of 30 documents, develop and improve its website’s functionality, and expand its network of collaborating scholars. (PD-103372)
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA $147,967
To support a project to edit and publish the Papers of Julian Bond. A pioneering voice in American politics for some five decades, Julian Bond (1940-2015) first distinguished himself as a leading activist and member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He served 20 years as a Georgia representative, was president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and taught at American University, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia. During the proposed grant period, staff will continue its editorial work on Series 1: Articles and Speeches, and continue document selection for The Essential Julian Bond, Volume One. (PD103374)
Northeastern University
Boston, MA $160,000
To support a project to edit and publish as a digital edition project, Cherokees Writing the Keetoowah Way. Building on its Digital Archive of American Indian Languages Perseverance (DAILP) project, the editorial team will create an online environment for transcribing, translating, and contextualizing historical documents written using the Cherokee syllabary, a set of written characters representing syllables and serving the purpose of an alphabet. During this initial grant period, the DAILP team and its community partners will establish base texts for, annotate, contextualize, and publish 60 documents; complete and publish teaching materials; complete initial wireframing, navigation, and additional website enhancements; and identify necessary tool improvements. (PD-103375)