James Monroe was the only president, aside from George Washington, to run unopposed for re-election. But that may not be the most surprising fact about the last Founding Father to occupy the White ...

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 ...

Cousins Jennifer L. Stacy and George R. Monroe Jr. do not want the College of William & Mary to remove President James Monroe’s name from a residence hall, nor would they support the removal of the ...

Recent excavations at Highland — the historic, Charlottesville home of the nation’s fifth president — are upending history. The archaeology, combined with tree-ring dating, shows that the newly ...

The daughter of former President James Monroe will be buried in the same Virginia cemetery as her father on Thursday, finally reuniting the pair two centuries after she was stranded in France and left ...

James Monroe had pretty modest digs for a U.S. president—or so scholars thought. From 1799 to 1823, the nation's fifth leader lived near Charlottesville, Virginia, on a plantation known as Highland.

The daughter of President James Monroe is set to be reunited with her father and family in the same Virginia cemetery on Thursday nearly two centuries after she died poor and alone in Paris, France.

James Monroe was the only president, aside from George Washington, to run unopposed for re-election. But that may not be the most surprising fact about the last Founding Father to occupy the White ...