News

Here, we’ve collected links to newspaper, magazine and web articles about museum events and Monroe’s life and career.

2019

The James Monroe Traveling Exhibit “Your Obedient Servant: James Monroe’s 1819 Presidential Tour of the Southern States” is currently on tour! See below for articles discussing its tour through the Southern States.

• Temporary exhibition at the Chief Vann House traces President Monroe’s 1819 travels through the South 

• “Your Obedient Servant: James Monroe’s 1819 Presidential Tour of the Southern States” Exhibit

• Vann House unveils a limited-time exhibit

• BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE’S VISIT!

2018

• Scott Harris, Executive Director of University Museums, was interviewed on WFVA’s Town Talk with Ted Schubel discussing programming at the James Monroe Museum and Gari Melchers Home and Studio (February 13, 2018).

• • The James Monroe Museum’s Presidents’ Day program was featured in Recreation News (January 30, 2018).

2017

• • • Experts to discuss life, legacy of president and revolutionary James Monroe. (Free Lance-Star, April 24, 2017)
    • Army band to herald 200th birthday of Monroe inauguration. (Free Lance-Star, March 1, 2017)
    • Paino’s inauguration to be held April 21. Features excerpts from the Presidential Press Conference with James Monroe and President Troy Paino presented by The James Monroe Museum.(Free Lance-Star, February 22, 2017)
    • Google project spotlights historic sites related to President James Monroe. (Free Lance-Star, February 21, 2017)
    • Editorial: A presidential press conference at UMW. (Free Lance-Star, February 20, 2017)

2016

• • • Take a 3-D virtual tour of the James Monroe Museum, courtesy the Library of Virginia and Google 360!  Then come visit us for real!

2015

• • • “James Monroe Museum uncovers previously unknown Monroe portrait” (Free Lance-Star, 4.21.15).
    • “James Monroe Museum displays silver from president’s collection” (Fredericksburg.com, 1.25.15).

2014

• • • “Trivia Night at a Historic Site” (FLS WEEKender, 7.3.14).
    • “Take your tea with history” (Free Lance-Star, 6.5.14).

2013

• • • “James Monroe Museum and sister city association to sponsor French-themed event” (Free Lance-Star , 5.14.13).
    • “Get moving with Monroe museum yoga” (Free Lance-Star, 5.4.13).
    • “Bringing History to Life” (UMW news article, 4.29.13).
    • “Caroline Kennedy May Be the Latest Presidential Kid to Turn Diplomat” (Time, 4.24.13).
    • “Monroe Museum hopes to reach new visitors” (Free Lance-Star, 2.26.13).
    • “Hail to the chiefs! A road trip to where our presidents took their last breaths” (Washington Post Magazine, 2.18.13).
    • “The crossing of the Delaware you haven’t heard about” (WHYY, 12.14.12 – director Scott Harris interviewed).

2012

• • • “Welcome Home, Mr. Monroe” (Virginia Living, September 2012).
    • “Tea Time with the Monroes” (Free Lance-Star, 6.7.12).
    • “New research aims to connect Loudoun slaves to modern-day descendants” – article about new research into slaves owned by Monroe (Washington Post, 2.22.12)
    • “When the Country’s Founding Father is Your Founding Father” (Smithsonian.com, 2.17.12).
    • “Supporters rally to help museum acquire James Monroe document” (“Past is Prologue,” Free Lance-Star, 2.18.12).

2011

• • • “China and the End of the Monroe Doctrine” (Foreign Policy in Focus, 12.1.11).
    • “Monroe’s Crossing to be re-enacted in Lambertville and New Hope, NJ” (Hunterdon County Democrat, 11.29.11).
    • Fort Monroe designated National Monument (11.1.11).
    • China service, originally owned by Marie Antoinette and purchased by Monroe for James Madison up for auction (9.27.11).
    • More about the recently resurfaced glass decanters (“Carnegie Museum of Art acquires major works for collection,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 7.20.11)
    • “Open Houses – Our Patriots’ Homes” (Drive I-95.com newsletter, June 2011 – JMM is mentioned!)
    • Article about two glass decanters made by Pittsburgh glassmaker Benjamin Bakewell for Monroe’s White House, which had been missing for years and recently came up for auction. (New York Times, 7.7.11)
    • “Leader of battlefield park will be new director of Monroe museum” (Free Lance-Star, 5.21.11)
    • “At the James Monroe Museum: Open House and Party” (Free Lance-Star, 4.28.11)
    • A Wedding Style Shoot at the James Monroe Museum (Korie Lynn Photography Blog, 4.8.11)
    • “This Month in Diplomatic History: Celebrating the Birth of James Monroe,” (Foreign Service Journal, April 2011)

2010

• • • “At the James Monroe Museum, Visit the Holiday Open House,” (Free Lance-Star, 12.2.10)
    • “Fun for the history-minded,” (“Past is Prologue” blog, Free Lance-Star, 10.11.10)
    • “Downtown Festival Celebrates one of the Coolest Corners of Great Britain,” (Free Lance Star, 9.23.10)
    • JMM is on the new Segway tour of downtown Fredericksburg: “Revisiting History on a Two-Wheel Glide,” (Free Lance-Star, 9.16.10)
    • JMM Sandwich Campaign: “Monroe’s on the Ballot – Er, Menu,” (Free Lance-Star, 4.1.10) and follow-up “Sandwich Contest Picks a Winner” (Free Lance-Star, 4.22.10)

2009

• • “Jan Williams Offers Tips on how to Really Deck the Halls,” (Free Lance-Star, 12.3.09)
  • JMM Costume Exhibit: “Threads to the Past at Monroe Museum,” (Free Lance-Star, 10.16.09)
  • “The Political Professionalism of James Monroe” (PDF), (Presidential Studies Quarterly 39.2 [June 2009])
  • VAM Member Profile on JMM’s costume conservation project (PDF), (Virginia Association of Museums Voice, Spring 2009)