Scholarly Editions

The following Scholarly Editions projects were funded in 2001:

Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Giuseppe Verdi
University of Chicago, IL
Philip Gossett, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of a critical edition of the works of Giuseppe Verdi.
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $103,500 over a period of two years.

Critical Edition of the Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Indiana University, Indianapolis
Nathan Houser, Project Director
To support publication of two volumes and editorial organization and transcription of three additional volumes of the writings of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914).
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/web/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $125,000 over a period of two years.

The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
University of Maryland, College Park
Neil R. Fraistat and Donald Reiman, Project Directors
To support the continuing preparation of a new critical edition of the complete poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Website: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/CPPBS.html
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $200,000 over a period of three years.

The Correspondence of William James
American Council of Learned Societies, New York, NY
John J. McDermott, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the correspondence of William James.
Website: http://www.acls.org/pro-jame.htm
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $225,000 over a period of three years.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project
University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie S. Rowland, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of a documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom in the American South, 1861-1867.
Website: http://www.inform.umd.edu/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman/home.html
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $170,000 over a period of two years.

The John Dewey Correspondence
Southern Illinois University,Carbondale
Larry A. Hickman, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an electronic edition of the correspondence of John Dewey.
Website: http://www.siu.edu/~deweyctr/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $150,000 over a period of two years.

The Mark Twain Project
University of California, Berkeley
Robert H. Hirst, Project Director
To support the preparation of an electronic edition of Mark Twain's correspondence.
Website: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/MTP/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $235,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of George Washington
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Philander Chase, Project Director
To support scholarly work on the multi-volume edition of the papers of George Washington.
Website: http://www.virginia.edu/gwpapers/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $450,000 over a period of three years.

The Papers of James Madison
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
John C.A. Stagg, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the papers of James Madison.
Website: http://www.virginia.edu/pjm/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $150,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of John Marshall
Omohundro Institute, Williamsburg,VA
Charles F. Hobson, Project Director
To support scholarly work on the edition of the papers of John Marshall (1755-1835), American statesman and jurist.
Website: http://www.wm.edu/JMP/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $140,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of Nathanael Greene
Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence
Dennis M. Conrad, Project Director
To support scholarly work leading to publication of the last two volumes of the 13-volume edition of the papers of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene.
Website: http://mep.cla.sc.edu/ng/ng-table.html
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $120,000 over a period of two years.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Princeton University, NJ
Barbara Oberg, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the papers of Thomas Jefferson.
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $400,000 over a period of three years.

Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project
Stanford University, CA
Rega Wood, Project Director
To support the transcription and preparation of a critical edition of the Latin texts of two of the 13^th-century philosophical works of Richard Rufus of Cornwall, author of the earliest surviving commentaries on Aristotle's natural philosophy.
Website: http://www.yale.edu/divinity/rufus/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $110,000 over a period of two years.

The Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland, College Park
Peter Albert, Project Director
To support the continuing preparation of an edition of the papers of Samuel Gompers.
Website: http://www.inform.umd.edu/Hist/Gompers/
Outright funds and offer of matching funds: $100,000 over a period of two years.