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.

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 ...

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 ...

Gen. Grant and Gen. Garfield also had a slight falling out in their relationship after the former chose Gen. Thomas, not Gen. Garfield, to replace Gen. Rosecrans as head of the Army of the Cumberland.

GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO) - Garfield Heights police say officers arrested two people Friday after a chase ended in a crash.

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 ...

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 ...