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Rotunda is the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press. It was conceived as an experiment in the feasibility of electronic academic publishing at the dawn of the Internet age, launching its first Founding Era publication in 2004, The Dolley Madison Digital Edition. Today, Rotunda continues to legitimize and preserve digital scholarly editions by integrating them with an established university press. Rotunda’s flagship offering is its American History Collection, containing over 300,000 materials, spanning George Washington’s earliest surveying journals to audio recordings of Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office phone conversations. These editions, primarily derived from the authoritative printed book series, are used by over 200 subscribing universities and libraries around the world, and are of particular value to authors, researchers, and students, who appreciate knowing they can experience all the content contained in the printed volumes with the added benefit of keyword and metadata search.
rotunda collections
Rotunda publications are available to both libraries and independent scholars as single titles or as collections. The American History Collection includes the sub-collections American Founding Era; Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction; and the American Century.
American History Collection
American Century Collection
Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction
Founding Era Collection
People of the Founding Era
The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney & Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
The Papers of James Madison Digital Edition
The Adams Papers Digital Edition
The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition
The Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
The Diaries of Gouverneur Morris Digital Edition
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton Digital Edition
The Papers of Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen
The Papers of John Marshall Digital Edition
The Dolley Madison Digital Edition
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
The Papers of James Monroe Digital Edition
The Letters of Benjamin Rush
Literature and Culture Collection
Architecture
legacy projects
These two guides to resources in African American history, dating from the 1990s, were the very first online publications under the imprint of the University of Virginia Press.
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