On Presidents’ Day each year, it has been my wont to regret the holiday’s celebration of insipid ubiquity. Instead of ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

Guiteau had another motive: He imagined that by killing Garfield he would heal a split in the Republican Party over the spoils system — the idea that the political party that wins an election has the ...

But James Garfield, before being elected president, had a busy political career that often kept him from home. "It is a pity," he once wrote, "That I have so little time to devote to my children." ...

PANGUITCH — The Garfield County Commission has voted against ... "Pioneers should never be canceled out by any politician," Burr's great-granddaughter Brenda Baird said at the meeting.