The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the grant making arm of the National Archives, has signed a cooperative agreement with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, affiliated with the University of Virginia, to provide pre-publication access to 68,000 historical papers of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington that have not yet been published in authoritative documentary editions. The cooperative agreement provides up to $2.5 million for the project. … Continue reading →
An award from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation has allowed Documents Compass to begin work on a scholarly resource to create a biographical glossary combined with a group study (prosopography) of Americans born between 1713 (the end of Queen Anne’s War) and 1815 (the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
People of the Founding Era (PFE) will provide readers with aggregated biographical information. Initially this information will come from the documentary editions of the Founding Fathers and their contemporaries, and then expand beyond the editions to other sources. Readers will be able to find basic biographical information about over 12,000 Americans — both native born and immigrant. Continue reading →
Documents Compass is working on a pilot project with the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to publish on Rotunda (the electronic imprint of the University of Virginia Press) a collection of the as yet unpublished documents collected by the papers of the Founding Fathers. To date these editions have included the Papers of James Madison and John Adams. The goal of Early Acess is to provide the American public, including the editors themselves, scholars, … Continue reading →
The papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) and her daughter Harriott Pinckney Horry (1748-1830) document the lives of two observant and articulate women who were members of one of South Carolina’s leading families, and distinguished people in their own right. Pinckney’s papers not only illustrate agriculture in the American south east, and the development of indigo; they also reveal the importance for women of her class of trans-Atlantic friendships and social connections. Horry’s correspondence documents … Continue reading →
The George Antheil Digital Edition will be an annotated electronic edition of the complete correspondence of the American composer George Antheil. Antheil was a major artistic figure of the mid 20th century and his life and works resonated broadly, impacting many spheres from television to the classical music arena both in the United States and in Europe. The correspondence of George Antheil is one of the most significant documentary resources of the 20th century. The … Continue reading →
