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Editing Historical Documents - an overview of the discipline

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Theory & Practice of Documentary Editing

Selected Bibliography

 

Kline, Mary-Jo. A Guide to Documentary Editing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

Stevens, Michael. E. and Steven B. Burg. Editing Historical Documents A Handbook of Practice. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1997.

Articles:

Cappon, Lester. “A Rationale for Historical Editing Past and Present.” William & Mary Quarterly 23 (1966): 56-75.

Teute, Fredrika J. “Views in Review: A Historiographical Perspective on Historical Editing.” American Archivist 43 (Winter 1980): 43-56.

Cullen, Charles T. “Principles of Annotation in Editing Historical Documents” Literary & Historical Editing. Edited and with introductions by George L. Vogt and John Bush Jones. Library Series no. 46. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Libraries, 1981, 81-95.

Middleton, Anne. “Life in the Margins, or, What’s an Annotator to Do?” The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 20 no. 1-2 (1990):166-183, originally published in New Directions in Textual Studies edited by Dave Oliphant and Robin Bedford. Austin, TX: University of Texas at Austin, 1990 

Tanselle, G. Thomas. “The Bibliography and Textual Study of American Books.” Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876. edited by David D. Hall and John B. Hench. Worchester: American Antiquarian Society, 1987, 233-280.

Towner, Lawrence W. “The Mapping of the American Revolutionary War in the Nineteenth Century” in Past Imperfect: Essays on History, Libraries, and the Humanities edited by Robert W. Karrow, Jr., and Alfred F. Young, with an Introduction by Alfred F. Young. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, 89-111. (originally submitted by J.B. Harley, Barbara Bartz Petchenik and Lawrence W. Towner as “Mapping the American Revolutionary War.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978, 111-24.)

Schulz, Constance B. “’From Generation unto Generation’: Transitions in Modern Documentary Historical Editing.” Reviews in American History 16 No. 3 (Sept. 1988): 337-350.

 

 
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