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

Literature and Culture Collection

• The Digital Temple
• Emily Dickinson's Correspondences
• The Letters of Matthew Arnold
• Clotel by William Wells Brown
• Herman Melville's 'Typee'
• The Letters of Christina Rossetti
• Journal of Emily Shore

Architecture

• SAH Archipedia
• The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted

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.

• Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
• Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina