Tim McGrath’s biography “James Monroe: A Life” shows how Monroe’s character and experiences over a long career shaped his doctrine: a worthy capstone of an interesting public life.

The Papers of James Monroe was a documentary editing project focusing on Monroe’s life and career, and was based out of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Daniel ...

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 ...

But what of James Monroe, the nation’s fifth president, 1817-1825? Previously, the preeminent biography of Monroe was written in 1971, nearly 50 years ago, by Harry Ammon, then professor of ...

This text was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning. Historian Scott Harris talked about James Monroe’s life, including the fifth president’s Revolutionary War service, his work as a ...