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03/15/2022

Marc Selverstone of Miller Center of Public Affairs gave a fascinating talk to a (virtual) full house on the presidential recordings program, which provides the contents for ROTUNDA's Presidential Recordings Digital Edition. Great stuff--watch/listen below.

The UVA Club of Fairfield/Westchester invited all alumni, friends, and families to join us for an entertaining and informative virtual evening with Marc Selv...

01/03/2022

Here is Library Journal on ROTUNDA's latest publication, THe Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition: "Structure and searchability are where this resource shines. The Digital Edition is uniquely interactive. It enables researchers to drill down easily to pinpoint documents by decade, year, month, and day and to search with precision across all 14 volumes of Washington’s papers simultaneously—capabilities that put regular static ebooks to shame." Visit the ROTUNDA site and register for a free trial here: https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/register/default.xqy

The Booker T. Washington Papers Digital Edition gives access to multiple volumes of the innerworkings an instrumental Black educator and author. Researchers and historians will revel in the richness of this collection. Although, the platform is outdated and difficult to navigate at times, the signif...

09/27/2021

UVA Press and our electronic imprint Rotunda are delighted to announce the latest title in the American Century Collection: THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PAPERS.

This digital edition is based on the landmark fourteen-volume print series of Washington’s papers, one of the great documentary editions in American scholarship—“a major enterprise in Black historiography” (Times Literary Supplement). Comprising the complete contents of the print edition, The Booker T. Washington Papers is fully searchable and interoperable with other titles in the American History Collection.

Read on below, and learn more here: https://bit.ly/2XPJhXO

08/05/2021

On the seventh anniversary of the launch of Founders Online, US National Archives looks back on and celebrates this widely used resource, a collaboration with ROTUNDA that brought the papers of the founding fathers to the general public in an open-source online web site.

Seven years ago, we launched Founders Online. In partnership with the University of Virginia’s Rotunda electronic imprint and documentary edition projects, we made a freely accessible and searchabl…

07/06/2021

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05/27/2021

Quasicrystals are found, says LiveScience, "in meteorites from the early solar system, and are thought to be forged only in the extreme heat and pressure of the universe's most powerful explosion." But there's another place that generated enough heat to create quasicrystals, here on planet Earth--the site of the first nuclear-bomb test, Trinty Site in New Mexico. While no buildings stand on it and precious little nature, Trinity has one of the most fascinating histories of nearly any piece of land. And so does it have an entry in SAH Archipedia? Sure does: https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NM-01-053-0001

'Quasicrystals' like these are usually only found in meteorites and formed in the universe's mightiest explosions.

05/20/2021

Leading up to tonight's star-filled panel discussion of LBJ's Oval Ofice tapes at LBJ Presidential Library & Museum, MSNBC ran the compelling piece below, in which Brian Williams and Michael Beschloss discuss the tapes an invaluable window on the presidency and that pivotal era of history. ROTUNDA presents thousands of recordings--with transcripts and audio files--in its Presidentail REcordings Digital Edition: https://prde.upress.virginia.edu

Two scholars of Pres. Lyndon Johnson, MSNBC's Brian Williams and NBC News Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss, discuss the treasure trove of LBJ phone calls now readily available to history buffs online at LBJTapes.org.

05/19/2021

As part of its fiftieth anniversary, LBJ Presidential Library & Museum will host a discussion of President Johnson's Oval Office tapes featuring a powerhouse panel. The tapes come from the Presidential Recordings project curated by the Miller Center of Public Affairs and are part of ROTUNDA's Presidential Recordings Digital Edition: https://prde.upress.virginia.edu

The LBJ Presidential Library welcomes visitors and researchers interested in President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

03/26/2021

A nice shoutout from National Historical Publications and Records Commission for the Dolley Madison DIgital Edition, ROTUNDA's very first publication way back in 2004, and still going very strong. More here: https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/

Dolley Payne Madison was the most important First Lady of the 19th century, and the Dolley Madison Digital Edition will be the first-ever complete edition of all of her known correspondence. As of March 2021 it is complete through 1849, with a total of 3291 documents, and the NHPRC is proud to have supported the project for many years.

The Dolley Madison Digital Edition received the 2020 Lyman Butterfield Award from the Association of Documentary Editing in recognition of the first comprehensive edition of a founding-era woman’s writings, the first primarily born-digital scholarly edition, and the first edition published by the Rotunda imprint of the University of Virginia Press. Editor Holly C. Shulman and her colleagues developed key technologies and approaches for digital editing.

To see more, go to https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/

03/11/2021

Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens proposes at least two ways of reading its contents. First and foremost, Maier’s title page offers up a story (fig. 1). The etchings tell the tale of Atalanta, Hippomenes, and a trio of apples, while the title itself, “Atalanta fleeing,” puts Atalanta in motio...

01/28/2021

Rotunda congratulates Karen Kingsley on her being named one of the Society of Architectural Historians fellows for 2021, given to "individuals who have distinguished themselves by a lifetime of significant contributions to the field." Karen has played a central role in the Buildings of the United States series of books that in turn provided the content for ROTUNDA's open-access architectural archive SAH Archipedia: https://sah-archipedia.org

01/28/2021

As David Bowie said, everything has changed--nothing has changed. Journal of the American Revolution offers a fascinating tour of Boston as Paul Revere might experience it. Many changes over these 200 years, of course, but he just might find his way home in this remarkably enduring city. For an overview of Boston's built world, check out SAH Archipedia's Boston collection here: https://sah-archipedia.org/essays/MA-01

Here’s one of the things I love most about Boston: If it were possible to drop Paul Revere in downtown today, he could, quite...