Her correspondence provides scholars,
students, and anyone interested in American
history a powerful
snapshot of the creation of the federal government and life in early
19th century
America. The glossary also identifies
places, and eventually will include even the ships on which
Dolley
Madison embarked, to set each letter in the most accurate context
possible.
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The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, the first offering from
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special concentrations in
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books. While
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over 1,000
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WASHINGTON, David Patterson, president of ACM, the
largest membership organization of computer
educators, researchers, and
professionals, said the White House's commitment to increased investment
in
education and basic research is the key to sustaining innovation. In a
statement issued today
in response to the President's American Competitiveness
Initiative in his State of the Union address
, Patterson said the
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"The launch
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deep access to
historical information and knowledge, fundamentally improving the way
scholars
conduct research," said the University of Virginia Press's
electronic imprint manager Mark H. Archived
in XML, the
Digital Edition offers a powerful selection of search tools, allowing
users to perform
simple or advanced searches by period, correspondent,
topic, or place.upress. Citing historical
precedents, he said that
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The first installment of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
contains
over 700 letters, through June 1836, with some 1800
additional letters to follow in periodic updates
. This is the future and it looks good!" said
Catherine Allgor, professor at the University of California
at
Riverside, and author of Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of
Washington Help Build a City
and a Government
About the University of Virginia Press
The University of Virginia Press
(formerly named the University
Press of Virginia) was founded in 1963 to advance the intellectual
interests not only of the University of Virginia, but of institutions
of higher learning throughout
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, UVaP currently publishes fifty to
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An invaluable
resource
in itself, the extensive glossary identifies more than 1,000 people
and books referred
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Each
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He noted
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technology, and has driven innovation
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The letters may also be accessed directly through a
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