The Foundation and Mary Washington College along with the assistance of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy began the annual James Monroe Lecture in 1988. As they become available, the Foundation will make the texts of the following presentations available.

2001
"Presidents Abroad, Presidents at Home 1780-1825"
Betty C. Monkman
Curator, The White House

2000
"The Diplomacy of James Monroe"
James P. Lucier, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, James Monroe Memorial Foundation

1999
"James Monroe: Defining a Style for the Presidency -
The Decorative Arts and The White House"

Sumpter Priddy III

1998
"Slavery & James Monroe's America"
Robert P. Forbes
Executive Coordinator, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale University

1997
"James Monroe, National Boundaries
and the Monroe Doctrine"
Daniel Preston
Editor, The Papers of James Monroe

1996
"Monroe & John Quincy Adams: The Last of the
Revolutionaries and the First Son of the Republic"

Richard Norton Smith
Director, Gerald R. Ford Museum & Library

1995
"Roads of Relocation & Renewal: James
Monroe's Relations with Native Americans"

Gerrard W. Gawalt
Historical Specialist, Library of Congress

1994
"How a State Came to Lead a Nation: the Political
Cultures of Virginia in the Era of Jefferson and Monroe"

Daniel P. Jordan
President, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation

1993
"The Presidential Tours of James Monroe"
Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.
Curators' Professor of History, University of Missouri

1992
"Images of a President: Portraits of James Monroe"
David Meschutt
Curator of Art, West Point Museum

1991
"James Monroe's Vision of the American West"
Howard R. Lamar
Sterling Professor of History, Yale University

1990
"Monroe & Slavery: Private Views, Public Policy"
Harry Ammon
Professor of History Emeritus, Southern Illinois University

1989
"Origins and Objectives of the Monroe Doctrine"
Edward P. Crapol
Professor of History, College of William and Mary

1988
"The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine"
Gaddis Smith
Professor of History, Yale University