The Booker T. Washington Papers
The Booker T. Washington Papers were edited and published in fourteen volumes in a project C. Vann Woodward called "the single most important research enterprise now under way in the field of American black history." The volumes were published by the University of Illinois Press.
The project was headed bu John W. Blassingame and Louis Harlan, both of whom were deceased in 2010..
Other reviews of the first volume:
"A major event by any standards. At long last friends, critics, and even enemies of Washington can see him only as his papers can reveal him. . . . In the papers we can find confirmations of our various opinions of him, but we can also find surprises in the life and views of a man that too few of his contemporaries really knew and understood."--John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago
"An extraordinary set of papers, not just for Negro history but for the history of the early twentieth century. Washington has an incredibly large correspondence with important scholars, philanthropists, and politicians of his age, and the publication will be an enormous service to scholars."--Kenneth M. Stampp, University of California
"Louis Harlan is an extraordinary able scholar and certainly one of the most perceptive and thoughtful historians working in the field of Negro history. . . . The undertaking is going to be one of the truly distinguished editorial contributions of our generation."--Dewey Grantham, Vanderbilt University
The University of Virginia Press has published the complete papers in a Rotunda Digital Edition.