New Grant Money Dedicated for First Ladies Archives

First Ladies Association for Research and Education announces Lewis L. Gould Archives Grant to make nonprofit archives more accessible.

Lewis L. Gould is recognized as the “father” of First Ladies Studies and has established through the First Ladies Association for Research and Education a grant in his name that will help fund projects making primary source material more accessible.

For scholars studying America’s first ladies, especially the lesser-known women, the work has often been accompanied with frustration in their attempts to unearth hard-to-find sources to help tell fuller stories of presidential spouses.

Now, scholars are hoping to make that work a little easier for their peers as a result of the newly established Lewis L. Gould Archives Grant administered by the First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE), the organization announced last week.

The grant is endowed by historian Lewis L. Gould, who is recognized as the “father” of First Ladies Studies. He is the Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor Emeritus in American History at the University of Texas at Austin where, in the fall of 1982, …