ORANGE — Within days of accepting the job, the new president of James Madison’s Montpelier reinstated the professional staff members fired and suspended by the Virginia historic site’s former executive,
Once owned by James Madison, the Montpelier plantation remains a model for presenting a full depiction of the life of the former president as well as the lives of those he enslaved.
New Montpelier Foundation board acts quickly to resolve crisis, chooses new leadership, appointing former chief curator as presidential estate s interim president and CEO.
On the heels of firings and suspensions that have demoralized staff at James Madison’s Montpelier and shocked history professionals across the nation, staff members fear more retribution is to come.
On the heels of firings and suspensions that have demoralized staff at James Madison’s Montpelier and shocked history professionals across the nation, staff members fear more retribution is to come.