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Editor Beverly Wilson Palmer Completes Thaddeus Stevens Project Vol. 25:2 ISSN 0 160-8460 Summer 1997 Vol.- 252IS 1086 umr19 Editor Beverly Wilson Palmer Completes Thaddeus Stevens Project The University of Pittsburgh Press has published the first of and other materials in the Library of Congress, she has located two volumes of the Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, edited individuals who possess Stevens letters, most of them in the by Beverly Wilson Palmer and associate editor Holly Byers Lancaster, Pennsylvania, area. Many days of research in the Ochoa. The second volume is scheduled to follow next year. A (See Stevens, page 4) microfilm edition, The Thaddeus Stevens Papers, with accompanying guide, also edited by Palmer and Ochoa, appeared in 1994. The Stevens project has received funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission since its inception in 1991. The volumes contain significant correspondence, legal arguments, and major speeches of this U.S. Congressman and Radical Republican leader on a range of historical topics. From his 1837 state legislature speech advocating black suffrage in Pennsylvania to the congressional Reconstruction legislation he authored, Stevens (1792-1868) insisted that African-Americans deserved the same legal protection as whites. He argued in favor of emancipation and equal pay for blacks during the Civil War, as well as equal rights for freedmen during Reconstruction. Ahead of his time in calling for equal rights, Stevens also protested California's discrimination against Chinese immigrants and advocated more humane treatment of Native Americans. During the Civil War he chaired the House Ways and Means Committee, masterminding appropriations to keep the Union armies viable. Controversies surrounding his personal and political life-cronyism, shady business dealings, his black housekeeper-probably kept Stevens from the cabinet appointment or senatorship he continually sought. Yet based on his fourteen years of service in the House of Representatives, Stevens left a legacy in the form of freed slaves, the Fourteenth Amendment, and increased economic opportunities for all people, regardless of race. Unlike Charles Sumner (whose correspondence Palmer previously edited), Stevens took no pains to see that his papers Thaddeus Stevens, 1792-1868. Mezzotint (1867) by John were preserved, and according to one biographer, destroyed Sartain (1801-1897) after photograph by C. W. Eberman. many of them. However, Palmer's extensive efforts to identify Reproduced courtesy of The National PortraitGallery, all known Stevens letters have paid off. In addition to letters Washington, DC. NPG. 79.24 James Madison and Jefferson Davis s<,t' ,':. -'', N;'A.... "N Papers Projects Win Awards v-ISSN .. i i! 0160-8460 The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded its prestigious Arthur S. Link Prize to Volume II of Annot4aton is the new 1etter of the National the Secretary of State Series of the Papers of James Madison. 'Hist0riial:Publications and :Rcords Co' ission Editor J.C.A. Stagg and assistant editor Mary A. Hackett accepted e l agency Wth the Nafinl Archives the award on behalf of the Madison papers editorial team at the a-niR.ecords Administration in Washington, DC. SHAFR luncheon held in conjunction with the American Recipients are encouaged to reus with appropriate Historical Association's annual meeting in New York City this crei,amy materials apearing in'Annotat. Inquiries January. about ving ota on submitt matrial for it, The award recognizes the high level of scholarship and oratiing else relatto iti be dirted to e Eitor, erudition present in the volume, and the Madison papers project's n;notaton, NHPRC;National Archives and Records overall contribution to history. The Link Prize, which is awarded Administration,-700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room not more than once every three years, is named for the 06,Wa htn, DC 20408-0001,(202)501-5610(voice); distinguished editor and biographer of Woodrow Wilson. (202) 501-5601 (fax); nhprclarchl.nara.gov (e-mail); : ' The Museum of the Confederacy, located in Richmond, p:,ll w .naraov/nara/ihprc/> (World Wide Web). Virginia, has presented its Founders Award to Volume VIII of the Papers of Jefferson Davis. The award, given biennially, N:. :.NPCMembers recognizes excellence in the editing of primary source materials ;.. ohnW Carlin ArchivistoftheUnited States, relating to the period of the Confederacy. Volume VIII, which ,, f/sn; HanyA. Blacknun, representing the covers the year 1862, was edited by Lynda L. Crist, Mary Seaton U.S,. SupremeCourt; RoyD. Blunt, representing the Dix, and Kenneth H. Williams. Reviews of the volume have U-.S. H,ouse of Reprsentatives; Nicholas C. Burkel been laudatory. According to one reviewer, with the publication -an.d-;-Ma,rvin F. "Bud" Moss, representing the of Volume VIII, the project has "hit full stride" and maintains President of the UnitedStates; William H. Chafe, "a standard of excellence that surpasses" other publications. :representing the .Organization of American This is not the first time a Jefferson Davis volume has won Histrians; Charles, T. Cullen, representing the the Founders Award; Volume I did so in 1971. 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