Let's call it History Week at the Oregon at War blog. Today, July 2, is the 131st anniversary of the day that Charles Guiteau shot President Garfield, a former Union general.

C.W. Goodyear’s excellent new biography President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, offers an extensive study of an academic, general, and statesman whose death has overshadowed his ...

It will be remembered that some time ago a commnuication appeared in the Dispatch, in which it was charged that Gen. James A. Garfield was not a friend to American industry, and that he was ...

At Garfield High School in East L.A., a new synthetic football field and surrounding track will soon be available to students and athletes alike. A new digital scoreboard will help fans tally up the ...

James Garfield was elected president in 1880, at a time of extreme political partisanship. Eleven days after the Republican nominated his cabinet, political cartoonist Joseph Keppler caricatured the ...

General Garfield is eminently a practical politician, and we need not fear that he will make a visionary administration, reaching out after the impossible, or trying to take ten steps at once.

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Major-Gen. James Abram Garfield, who was yesterday called to lead the Republican Party in the coming national campaign, is a man who may truly be said to have carved his own pathway, unaided and ...

13 ON YOUR SIDE was at Garfield Park Tuesday night! Donald Trump's approval rating fades after "big, beautiful bill" Dumb ...

Garfield, born poor in Cuyahoga County, was a teacher, Ohio state senator, U.S. congressman and a Civil War general despite having no prior military experience. The book describes him arriving at ...

The Last of the "Log Cabin Presidents" James Garfield was the last president to be born in a log cabin. When James was born in 1831, Ohio was on the edge of the American frontier and had been a ...

James Garfield’s ambitious career—from janitor to Union general, then from Congress to the presidency—was cut short by an assassin.