The Stanford Libraries have acquired two new American history publications by Rotunda Press, the digital publishing arm of the University of Virginia Press:
- The Adams Papers Digital Edition
- The Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition.
Adams Papers Digital Edition
The Adams Papers Digital Edition comprises John Adams's complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers.
This XML edition presents, in a searchable online environment, all 30 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding generation that have so far appeared in print. The contents are fully annotated, with feature-linked cross-references, and may be accessed by date, series, author, or recipient, as well as through a master index (coming shortly). Future volumes will appear in installments.
Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition
Since 1950, the writings of Thomas Jefferson have been compiled in the ongoing project The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. The Thomas Jefferson Papers Digital Edition brings together all 33 volumes published through 2006 into one searchable online resource. This content will be joined soon by the first four volumes of the Retirement Series sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which documents the time between Jefferson's return to private life and his death in 1826.
This XML edition includes all the illustrations and bibliographical content of the print edition, with the added convenience of linked cross-references and indexes. Users can search this life in letters by name, date, author and recipient; and can conduct French-language searches.
Other Founding Era Papers Available
The Adams and Jefferson digital editions form part Rotunda's consolidated Founding Era platform, of which Stanford already owns The Dolley Madison Digital Edition and the Papers of George Washington Digital Edition. All are cross searchable and navigable as a collection by chronology.
