James Monroe

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  July 7, 2019
  

  James Monroe Enslaved Hundreds. Their Descendants Still Live Next Door.

  A small African-American community has existed less than 10 miles from the president’s former plantation for generations. Only recently has the full extent of their relationship been revealed.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12-9-2018
  

  A Former Plantation Begins To Tell A Fuller Story Of Slavery In America

  For the first time in its 225-year history, the site has begun telling the stories of the African-American men and women who were enslaved there, and consulting with their descendants. 

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  8-6-18
  

  The Return of James Monroe

  by Walter Russell Mead

  Latin America’s crisis turns Washington’s Cold War nightmare on its head.

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• 6/10/18
  

  The Overlooked Radical of the Revolution: James Monroe

  by John Ferling

  Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine  –  And Monroe? Why this historian thinks they should be grouped together.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-28-16
  

  At Virginia home of President Monroe, a sizable revision of history

  It turns out that the home preserved on the estate — and marketed for years as the residence where the president laid his head — is in fact a guest quarters.