The Mellon Foundation has awarded $5.8 million to Montpelier, the Virginia estate of President James Madison, to tell the history of its enslaved community.

The new members aim to transform Montpelier into “a black history and black rights organization that could care less about James Madison and his legacy,” board member Mary Alexander, a ...

It may be four months away, but tickets to the Montpelier Hunt Races in Orange County are already selling at a brisk pace.

James Madison was the Father of the Constitution. We use this label in passing (as do the tour guides at Montpelier), but often do not reflect on what it means.

The Montpelier Foundation, which oversees the plantation home of founding father James Madison, has extended an invitation for singer Lizzo to visit the presidential estate after she made ...

It was a bright autumn day at Montpelier, the Virginia home of James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution. A guide had led a troop of tourists from the visitors’ center to the mansion, using ...

Staffers at James Madison's Montpelier home are planning to host of a number of events commemorating "Constitution Day" on Sept. 17. Adrienne Eichner/eichnerstudios.com Woke staffers at James ...

A tree that dates back to the 1850s and stood on James Madison’s Montpelier estate in Virginia during slavery, the Civil War and Jim Crow is now a handcrafted table. And it’s up for auction ...

Visitors tour Montpelier, home of Americas fourth president, James Madison, in 2021. (Julia Rendleman for The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...

Fresh off her performance on James Madison’s crystal flute, Lizzo has caught the eye of the former president’s estate, Montpelier.. TMZ was the first to report that the “About Damn Time ...

Case in point: Montpelier, James Madison’s home, where politics has overtaken history. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the organization that owns Montpelier, ...

In the past few months, I have written much about James Madison’s Montpelier, our fourth president’s home and now museum. A great deal of my writing has been descriptive, detailing the ...