the Dolley Madison Digital Edition

The DMDE attempts to identify every person, place, organization, and citation that is mentioned in the correspondence (or other documents such as newspaper articles, legal documents, and invitations). Annotations are provided by associating names to text. A list is provided in the left hand margin to facilitate searching. In addition, the DMDE provides editorial notes to explain issues that transcend individual letters but have not been the subject of serious historical research and writing. All documents are marked up in XML and conform to TEI.P5. Readers can both browse and search the collection or pull up the complete set of annotations, called in this edition the "glossary."

The DMDE was created by Holly Cowan Shulman working in close collaboration with the Papers of James Madison and Rotunda. The goal of the edition was and remains twofold: to provide a modern edition of Dolley Madison's correspondence; and to provide a model for a born-digital documentary edition in the field of history.

There are two previous editions of letters of Dolley Madison. The first, edited by her great-niece, Lucia B. Cutts, was originally published in 1886.Lucia B. Cutts, ed. Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison, Wife of James Madison, President of the United States. Boston and New York, 1886. The second, edited by a Washington historian, Allen C. Clark, was published in 1914.Allen C. Clark, ed. Life and Letters of Dolly Madison. Washington, D.C., 1914. Both are highly selected and heavily bowdlerized.

The DMDE was preceded by a selective edition edited by Shulman and David B. Mattern, senior associate editor of the Papers of James Madison: The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison, published in 2003 by the University of Virginia Press.David B. Mattern and Holly C. Shulman, eds. The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison. Charlottesville, Va., 2003.

The project director is Holly Cowan Shulman, and the managing editor is Mary MacNeil.{{Cite web|url=https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/introduction.xqy|title=Introduction to The Dolley Madison Digital Edition (Letters)|last=Shulman|first=Holly|date=2004-01-06|website=rotunda.upress.virginia.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-09}}

The DMDE was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Humanities, and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

The DMDE has been used by both academic and popular writers. Scholars who have cited the DMDE include historians such as Catherine Allgor,Catherine Allgor. A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation. New York, 2006. David Lynn Holmes,David L. Holmes. The Faiths of the Founding Fathers. Oxford, 2006. Annette Gordon-Reed,Annette Gordon-Reed. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. New York, 2008. Woody Holton,Woody Holton. Abigail Adams. New York, 2010. Caroline Winterer,Caroline Winterer. The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900. New York, 2007. and Douglas Houpt; and specialists in Digital Humanities such as Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker. Speclab: Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing. Chicago, 2009. and Lauren F. Klein. Popular historians who have used the edition include Cokie Roberts,Cokie Roberts. Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation. New York, 2008. Elise K. Kirk, Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, and Jon Meacham.Jon Meacham. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York, 2009.

The Dolley Madison Digital Edition won the Lyman H. Butterfield Award from the Association for Documentary Editing.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} In 2021 it was nominated for the J. Franklin Jameson Award from the American Historical Association.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}

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• [http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/ The Dolley Madison Project]
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20010719155123/http://www.dolleymadisonpapers.org/ The Dolley Madison Papers]
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• Holly C. Shulman, [http://hnn.us/articles/32922.html "Doing Digital History"], [http://hnn.us/ History News Network].
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