James Monroe

Monday's TV Highlights: 'Continuum' on Syfy

2013-03-17 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 17 - 23, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � -------------------- SERIES The Lead With Jake Tapper The journalist...

Fire damages woodshop at Monroe High School in North Hills

2012-11-09 07:32:27

NEH gives $40 million in grants; $3.2 million to California

2011-08-02 21:33:16

Gifts with a Presidents Day twist: Time in office

2011-02-20 16:32:12

James Monroe: A president for his time, not ours

2009-10-20 16:37:00

In his Oct. 15 Op-Ed article, "James Monroe, a president for our times?," Harlow Giles Unger offers an enthusiastic portrait of the fifth president's two terms in office from 1817-25, giving him much credit for the New Deal-like programs that helped end...

Inaugural addresses, then and now

2009-01-14 00:00:00

We consider ours a singular age of individual psychology and self-awareness. Isn't it strange, then, that our recent presidents have had nothing either modest or insightful to say about themselves in their first inaugural addresses, while our earliest...

Day trips in Virginia

2009-01-06 14:19:24

Virginia is loaded with history, and there is no shortage of day trips from Washington. Here are two suggestions: Mt. Vernon George Washington's home is so vast and fascinating that it's worth spending four to six hours here. The first highlight is...

Betty Jane Williams dies at 89; WASP test pilot during WWII

2008-12-10 22:34:00

Betty Jane Williams, who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, an elite group that flew noncombat missions during World War II, and served as a test pilot in Texas, has died. She was 89. Williams, of Woodland Hills, died Monday at Providence...

Past presidents -- an inaugural quiz

2009-01-20 00:00:00

Today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president in a ceremony filled with tradition. Test your knowledge of ceremonies past. 1. Of whose inaugural speech did wordsmith H.L. Mencken say: "It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it...

Treasures amid Valley bustle

2004-02-01 00:00:00

North Hills, a Los Angeles suburb of residential developments, large lots and commercial space, sits in the heart of the San Fernando Valley. The community, renamed twice since 1915, is home to a traffic-stopping topiary poodle, an onion-domed church...

It's not about the past; it's about potential

2004-04-25 00:00:00

Once a thriving working-class community, but hit hard by retail and job losses in the 1990s, Panorama City is poised for change. The 5.5-square-mile community was the first planned development in the San Fernando Valley, with schools, parks, shopping, a...

Monday's 5/20 local schedule (updated Sunday AM)

2013-05-18 23:30:00

HIGH SCHOOLS Baseball Mathews at West Point, 4 Tri-Rivers District tournament Peninsula District quarterfinals (at War Memorial Stadium): No. 6 Bethel vs. No. 3 Menchville, 4 No. 5 Kecoughtan vs. No. 4 Gloucester, 7 Bay Rivers District quarterfinals: No....

When James Monroe wrote his seventh State of the Union address to Congress in 1823, he espoused a firm position on U.S. foreign policy which would come to be known as the "Monroe Doctrine." This policy stated that the U.S.

2013-02-12 00:00:00

James Monroe Elementary School will close after this year.

2012-12-05 06:39:41

The silk upholstery fabric retains the gold eagle medallion on the chair backs which was adapted from the depiction of one of the Monroe-era chairs in a portrait of President James Monroe.

2012-06-27 14:51:00