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April 1996
Adams Editors Win Award
The editors of The Adams Papers, a documentary editing project supported in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, have won the J. Franklin Jameson Prize of the American Historical Association. Named for a founder of the Association and longtime managing editor of the American Historical Review, the Jameson Prize is awarded every five years for outstanding achievement in the editing of historical sources. The Adams editors have received the award for their work on volumes five and six of the Adams Family Correspondence, published in 1993 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
These volumes, in the words of the prize committee, exhibit "impeccable textual editing, importance of selected documents, intelligent annotation, and elegant design," and present "documents of wide interest in a format that scholars and general readers can depend upon for accuracy and enjoyment." Receiving the award are Richard A. Ryerson, editor in chief of The Adams Papers, and his colleagues Joanna M. Revelas, Celeste Walker, Gregg L. Lint, and Humphrey Costello. The Adams project is based at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.
