Located at the University of South Carolina and funded in part by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, MEP's mission is to "explore ways of creating [electronic] editions of historical documents which meet the standards scholars traditionally use in preparing printed editions" and to make these electronic editions available online. The site currently hosts seven "experimental mini-editions" of digitized historical texts: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Papers of Henry Laurens, Abraham Lincoln Legal Papers (preview only), Papers of General Nathanael Greene, Margaret Sanger Papers, and Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The texts are easily navigated and searched via the Table of Contents page. An historical introduction, short guides to searching and navigating the texts, and reading aids are also provided for each text.
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