SCHOLARLY EDITIONS AWARDS
Division of Research Programs
Announced: May 2003
The Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Peter J. Albert, Project Director
The completion and publication of volumes 10 and 11 and preparation of volume 12 of an edition of the papers of Samuel Gompers.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $110,000 over a period of 2 years.
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791
George Washington University, Washington, DC
Charlene N. Bickford, Project Director
Completion of volumes 18 and 19, and preparation of volume 20 of the documentary history of the First Federal Congress.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $165,000 over a period of one year.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Clayborne Carson, Project Director
Publication of volumes 5 and 6, and continued editorial work on volume 7 of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $360,000 over a period of 3 years.
John Dewey Correspondence
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Larry A. Hickman, Project Director
The third volume of a three-volume electronic edition of John Dewey's correspondence covering the years 1871-1952.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of eighteen months.
The Mark Twain Project
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Robert H. Hirst, Project Director
An electronic edition of Mark Twain's Complete Letters, 1853-1910 and Mark Twain's Complete Notebooks & Journals, 1855-1910.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $500,000 over a period of 3 years.
Papers of John Marshall
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA
Charles F. Hobson, Project Director
Completion of volume 12, the final volume of the edition of the papers of John Marshall (1755-1835), American statesman and jurist.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $170,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Nathan Houser, Project Director
Publication of volumes 9 and 11, and continued editorial work on volumes 10 and 12 for a critical edition of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $150,000 over a period of 2 years.
The Thomas A. Edison Papers
Rutgers State University, Piscataway, NJ
Paul B. Israel, Project Director
Part V (1911-1920) of the six-part image (microfilm) edition and volume 6 (April 1881-March 1883) of the 15-volume book edition.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $230,000 over a period of one year.
The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Jerome J. McGann, Project Director
The final two phases of The Rossetti Archive project, an online database of digital images and XML-marked transcriptions of materials related to the study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $170,000 over a period of 3 years.
Frederick Douglass Papers
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
John R. McKivigan, Project Director
Completion of the third volume of Frederick Douglass's autobiographical writings.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of one year.
The Papers of General Nathanael Greene
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI
Roger N. Parks, Project Director
Publication of volume 13, the final volume of the letterpress edition of the Papers of Nathanael Greene.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $72,715 over a period of one year.
Freedmen and Southern Society
University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD
Leslie S. Rowland, Project Director
The completion of series 3, volume 2, Land and Labor, 1866-1867, and initial preparation for series 4, volume 1, Violence, Law, and Justice.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $190,000 over a period of 2 years.
Selected Letters of Florence Kelley
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton, NY
Kathryn Kish Sklar, Project Director
The preparation of an annotated one-volume edition of the selected letters of Florence Kelley, a major 20th-century American labor reformer.
Outright Funds of $100,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Duke University, Durham, NC
David R. Sorensen, Project Director
The preparation and publication of volumes 31, 32 and 33 (print and electronic versions) and continued preparation of volume 34 of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, covering the years 1855-1860.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $175,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Papers of James Madison
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
John C. A. Stagg, Project Director
Completion of volume 5 in the Presidential Series and volumes 7 and 8 in the Secretary of State Series, editorial preparations for volume 6 in the Presidential Series and volumes 1 and 2 of the Retirement Series.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $160,000 over a period of 2 years.
Adams Papers
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
C. James Taylor, Project Director
Volumes 7 and 8 in the Family Correspondence (Series II) and Volumes 12 and 13 of the Correspondence and Papers of Statesmen (Series III) of the Adams Papers.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $550,000 over a period of 3 years.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
University of Notre Dame, IN
Eugene C. Ulrich, Project Director
Publication of five volumes of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $230,000 over a period of 2 years.
Richard Rufus of Cornwall
Stanford University, CA
Rega Wood, Project Director
Publication of Memoriale Quaestionum in Metaphysicam Aristotelis, completion of editorial work for lectures on De Anima, and initial editing of Dissertatio in Metaphysicam in Aristotelis.
Outright Funds and Offer of Matching Funds of $175,000 over a period of 2 years.