Of all the founding fathers of this nation, probably the least known and least understood is James Monroe, the fourth in the early line of Virginia-born United States presidents behind Washington, ...

James Monroe, the fifth president (1817-25), is most remembered for the Doctrine bearing his name and promulgated in his second term. The Monroe Doctrine laid the lines of America’s hemispheric and ...

James Monroe by Samuel Morse. In late July 1800, Gov. James Monroe learned of a yellow fever outbreak in Fredericksburg, Va. Local officials were able to trace the source of the virus to Norfolk, a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Sara Bon-Harper talked about James Monroe’s Highland. America’s fifth president was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, but in 1793 purchased land near ...

In this dense, painstaking biography, historian McGrath (Give Me a Fast Ship) credits James Monroe (1758–1831) with “creat[ing] the presidency as Americans have come to know it.” Wounded in the Battle ...

The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was part of the so-called Virginia Dynasty and the last Founding Father to serve in the highest office in the land. Famous for the Monroe ...

Six years of research by a Virginia woman made it possible for Eliza Monroe Hay to be reinterred in her family's plot at Hollywood Cemetery.

After two centuries in a neglected European grave, the remains of U.S. President James Monroe’s daughter will be coming home to rest beside her father in Richmond. The Catholic Diocese of Richmond ...