Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart will join the company of & Juliet as ‘Lance’ this August. Iglehart will debut in the ...

Murray mused. What if Monroe hadn’t sized the opportunity to buy Louisiana or obtain Florida or establish boundaries with Mexico or Canada? What if he, as secretary of state, hadn’t spoken up in a ...

Jefferson added Monroe, 15 years his junior, to his collection of protégés, which also included James Madison. Jefferson guided Monroe’s reading, and gave him a French cook, Monsieur Partout.

In his Oct. 15 Op-Ed article, “James Monroe, a president for our times?,” Harlow Giles Unger offers an enthusiastic portrait of the fifth president’s two terms in office from 1817-25, giving ...

On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure to keep the number of slave-holding and free states equal by bringing Missouri into the Union as a slave state ...

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 ...

Background/Early Life • James Monroe was born in Virginia in 1758 and grew up with the colonies on their way to war with Great Britain. • Monroe attended the College of William and Mary but by ...

At President James Monroe’s old plantation in Charlottesville, they’re flipping the script and rewriting the story with the help of descendants of the people he enslaved.

2050 James Monroe Pkwy., Charlottesville, Va. highland.org. Highland was home to the nation’s fifth president, the last of the Founding Fathers to serve as commander in chief. It serves as a ...