A year after the national centennial, a long-time member of the House of Representatives and future president of the United States reflected on the development of the American legislature. “Coin ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

James and Lucretia Garfield had seven children, five of whom survived into adulthood to make a lasting impact on their country. The passing of the Garfield's first and last children at ages ...

Michael Shannon, Nick Offerman, Matthew Macfadyen and more star in Death By Lightning, a new Netflix drama and the life (and ...

Rutherford B. Hayes declined to run again, so the Republicans turned to James Garfield, who was attractive, eloquent, and untainted by scandals. Although Garfield followed tradition by not campaigning ...