‘The Founder’s Curse: Monroe’s Struggle Against Political Parties’ By Brook Poston Johns Hopkins University Press, 248 pages The fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was part of the ...

President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a muscular defense of American interests in the Western Hemisphere, on this day in history, Dec. 2, 1823.

Sara Bon-Harper talked about James Monroe’s Highland. America’s fifth president was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, but in 1793 purchased land near Charlottesville, where he built a home he ...