James Monroe

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President's Daughter Returns Home After 185 Years in Paris

President's Daughter Was in
Unmarked Grave for 185 Years

President's Daughter Was in Unmarked Grave for 185 Years

Eliza Monroe Hay, who died destitute in 1840, will be reinterred in family plot in Virginia

(Newser) - A chance discovery in a college archive has reshaped one of American history's oldest family stories and brought a president's daughter home after nearly two centuries abroad. Retired teacher Barbara VornDick was digging through old letters at the College of William & Mary in Virginia when she found...

Monroe's
Humble Home
Maybe Not
So Humble

May 14, 2016 11:05 AM CDT

Monroe's Humble Home Maybe Not So Humble

What we thought was his home may have been merely a guest house

(Newser) - History doesn't change. But our depth of knowledge and understanding of it certainly does. Case in point: the Virginia home of founding father James Monroe. People have long believed that the fifth US president lived in a modest, two-bedroom house at Highland, his homestead from 1799 to 1823 located...

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