Colin Woodward became Editor of the Lee Family Digital Archive on August 31, 2015. Dr. Woodward got his undergraduate degree in history and religion from Trinity College in Hartford. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, studying with Charles Royster, who is an authority on "Light Horse Harry" Lee, the Revolution, and the Civil War. For three years, Dr. Woodward was an archivist at the University of Arkansas's Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture. Before that, he worked at Smith College and the Virginia Historical Society. His first book, Marching Masters: Slavery, Race and the Confederate Army during the Civil War, was published in 2014 by the University of Virginia Press. He is writing a second book on the importance of place, family, and history in the life of country singer Johnny Cash.
Frank E. Grizzard, Jr., was director of the Lee Family Digital Archive until 2012. He was formerly Senior Associate Editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia and published extensively on George Washington. Grizzard set up the first websites for the Papers of George Washington and the Association for Documentary Editing. He also served as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and as a member of the Steering Committee for Research Issues in Intellectual Access to Electronically Published Historical Documents.
Frank’s efforts to initiate and maintain the Lee archive project at Washington & Lee University are greatly appreciated and provide a solid foundation of research materials on which we can build.
