Holly Shulman Named 2025 Gould Award Winner
The First Ladies Association for Research and Education honors historian for pioneering ‘Dolley Madison Digital Edition’ and contributions to the field of American first lady research and education.
In the early days of the internet in the 1990s, there was a buzz in the air and questions among innovators across all fields about what the new technology could do and how it might be used. Swept up in the excitement was historian Holly Shulman, who had published a Ph.D. dissertation, articles and the 1990 book The Voice of America: Propaganda and Democracy 1941-1945 that explore how information moved locally and globally during World War II.
It was her interest in information, the internet and America’s first ladies that later led her to edit a born-digital editorial project, the Dolley Madison Digital Edition launched in 2004. It is a milestone work that is the first-ever complete edition of the former first lady’s known correspondence that is text searchable. On Monday, Shulman, a research historian at the Corcoran Department of H…
