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About Rotunda
Since 2004, our Rotunda imprint has published innovative peer-reviewed digital projects, both born-digital and from authoritative letterpress editions. Our core offering is the American History Collection of documentary editions spanning three centuries, from the earliest surviving writings of George Washington through the presidential correspondence of Woodrow Wilson: more than 20 publications with content from over 550 letterpress and born-digital volumes, for a total of nearly 300,000 documents, diary entries, and editorial essays, all cross-searchable.
Our major stand-alone publications are the Presidential Recordings Digital Edition, with transcripts and audio of nearly 4000 conversations from White House recordings; People of the Founding Era, a biographical reference to over 75,000 individuals; the open-access SAH Archipedia, an authoritative encyclopedia of the American built environment, with over 25,000 entries and 5000 editorial essays. Finally, our Literature and Culture Collection features seven editions of literary work and correspondence from nineteenth-century America and Britain.
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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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- jcoleman@virginia.edu
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Susan Spengler
As of 2023, Rotunda has engaged an advisory committee of respected colleagues at various institutions and organizations.
