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Jarod Kearney

Mr. Kearney is the curator of The James Monroe Museum. Previously, he was curator of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton, Virginia, curator of the Rye Historicial Society in New York, and director of the Hallockville Musuem Farm and Folklife Center on Long Island.

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    When on March 4, 1817, James Monroe was inaugurated as the fifth president of the United States, the District of Columbia still bore scars from its sacking by the British three years earlier. The country had achieved few of the political and military aims that led it into the War of 1812, and having the capital torched by the enemy caused profound national