Event Description
On June 22 and 23, 2026, the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) will hold its annual Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize session and a special one-time event, The ADE and America 250: Three Centuries of American Documents. These Zoom sessions will be free and open to all.
The Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize recognizes editors and students engaged in projects heavily dependent on documentary editing and document sources, with preference given to persons working on women in uniformed military service, in military support services, or on the home front during wartime. This year’s session will honor recipient Rachel Lane. She will speak on “‘Traipsing Abroad’: Ethel Roosevelt Derby’s Service Overseas During World War I.”
The ADE and America 250: Three Centuries of American Documents, presented as the nation commemorates its 250th anniversary, will highlight diverse primary documents that editing and recovery experts are opening to public access. In six sessions, twenty-five individual and team presenters will share documents stretching from the colonial era to the twentieth century. Many of those will become parts of the digital gallery of historical documents that the ADE will launch in October at its Houston joint conference with Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage. At the virtual sessions, the ADE looks forward to a robust conversation among presenters and attendees about the documents, their connections with large narratives of history, and the best ways to present them online.
The Sharon Ritenour Stevens Prize session will be at 1:15–2:15 pm ET on June 22. The America 250 sessions will run from 2:30 to 5:15 pm ET on June 22 and from 12:00 noon to 5:45 pm ET on June 23. Zoom links will be forthcoming. You can find the full schedule, with abstracts of the 250th sessions, at https://documentaryediting.org/annual-meeting/2026-virtual-business-and-sessions/.
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