The World of James Monroe Online (WJMO) is a free archive of James Monroe manuscripts in high-quality digital reproductions with their searchable transcriptions. WJMO is housed at William & Mary and is designed to create greater access to the historic record of James Monroe and the world around him, including the people, places, and politics he and his correspondents wrote about. WJMO includes sets of documents from archival repositories. Each collection is included in its entirety, so it is not a selection, it is a representation of the documents in a given archive.
The Papers of James Monroe (PJM) is a historical research and publishing project dedicated to expanding access to the correspondence and other public and private papers of the fifth president of the United States. The project is sponsored by the University of Mary Washington, administered under the James Monroe Museum, and funded primarily by the National Endowment for the Humanities. PJM staff collect, transcribe, annotate, and publish selected documents bearing on Monroe’s life and legacy as a foundation for further humanities scholarship, public history interpretation, patriotic education, and general historical literacy. Selective but expansive, The Papers of James Monroe documentary edition is published in print in a series of ten volumes by Bloomsbury Academic and online in a digital edition produced by Rotunda, the digital imprint of the University of Virginia Press. Seven volumes have been completed to date.
The World of James Monroe Online (WJMO) complements PJM by expanding the scope of available materials beyond the curated and annotated selections found in the print and digital editions. WJMO brings together complete institutional collections and makes visible aspects of Monroe’s personal, economic, and social life that may fall outside the bounds of the ten-volume series. By offering a broader documentary base, WJMO enriches the context for scholars, educators, and the public, providing new opportunities to explore Monroe’s world in depth.