The Papers of James Monroe

FAIN: RQ-287039-22

University of Mary Washington (Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5300)
Robert Karachuk (Project Director: December 2021 to April 2025)

Preparation for publication of volumes 8 and 9 of the papers of James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth President of the United States. (12 months).

The Papers of James Monroe is a longstanding scholarly editing project dedicated to making the correspondence and other public and private papers of the fifth president of the United States more accessible to researchers, teachers, students, and general readers. The project is sponsored by the University of Mary Washington and funded primarily by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Staff collect, transcribe, and annotate selected documents for publication in print in a series of ten volumes issued by ABC-CLIO and online in a digital edition produced by Rotunda, the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press. A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Correspondence and Papers of James Monroe was released in two volumes in 2000. The first volume of The Papers of James Monroe appeared in 2003. Subsequent volumes have followed at regular intervals. The most recent, Volume Seven, came out in 2020. The proposed grant will be applied to the preparation of Volumes Eight and Nine.