 Through our National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Archives and Records Administration supports the preservation, discovery and use of America's historical records. Since 1964, the Commission has funded ambitious works of scholarship, including numerous founding fathers projects, now freely available through Founders Online, and the papers of key figures like Frederick Douglass, Jane Adams, and Martin Luther King Jr. Such projects provide access to an editorial context for the historical documents that tell the American story and encourage understanding of our democracy, history and culture. As Chair of the Commission, I am proud of the work we have supported over the years and energized by the enthusiasm, creativity and exemplary work of the historians and editors you are about to meet. I'm Darryl Meadows, Program Officer for the Publishing Historical Records and Documentary Editions Program, one of several major grants programs offered by the National Archives through the NHPRC. Over the past five decades, NHPRC's Publishing Historical Records Program has supported the development and publication of nearly 300 documentary editions and since 1972 has funded professional development opportunities in the field of documentary editing. This work, coupled with hundreds of grants to archives across the U.S., has had a profound positive impact on the development of our nation's historical research infrastructure and the ability of researchers to discover, access and use historical records essential to the study of U.S. history and culture. As a growing number of long-standing projects funded through the Publishing Historical Records Program reach completion, the Commission is looking to support the next generation of historical documentary editions. Through this brief video series, you'll glimpse a few of the many benefits of developing well-conceived historical editions. Increasingly, such editions are taking full advantage of emerging digital technologies and web-based publication methods to make primary source materials easier to find, understand and use. This series showcases the work of historians and editors selected from a variety of ongoing historical edition projects. Most of them funded by our grants, all of them do an outstanding work that we can all learn from. As these testimonials suggest, historical editions are themselves significant works of scholarship, interventions that raise new historical questions and advanced historical research and teaching. We'll hear from project leaders and students alike who highlight what can be achieved when such projects are integrated into a department's curriculum and programs. In a variety of ways, these projects are enhancing undergraduate and graduate education and training in history and the humanities. Finally, these testimonials also suggest that historical editions and related digital collections projects create real opportunities for productive collaboration and meaningful public engagement. Increasingly, we are seeing projects in which collaboration and public engagement are built right into the workflow, with mutual benefits accruing throughout the life of a project. To learn more about the projects featured in this series, as well as grant opportunities available through the NHPRC, simply follow the links provided in the text below each video.