When President James Garfield was gunned down at the Washington, DC, train station in 1881, his assassination came at the hand of a man who was arguably one of history’s first incels.

In the grand scheme of things, there has been Michigander who shaped impacted the presidency more than any other. Even more ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was in a good mood. Having completed a few months in office, Gaffy, as at least one of his friends called him, was going on vacation.

Netflix's upcoming historical drama, Death by Lightning, will tell the tale of the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. Per the streamer, "Death by Lightning is a drama series that ...

Netflix has unveiled the full cast for Death by Lightning. The upcoming limited series will explore the "epic and stranger-than-fiction" story of the 20th president of the United States, James ...

Garfield Assassination 119 years ago America was in shock. James Garfield became the second sitting President in less than 20 years to die from an assassin's bullet. Ironically, the inventor of ...

The assassination of President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, Washington D.C., America on July 2, 1881, by Charles Julius Guiteau.

Charles Guiteau shoots President James Garfield in 1881. ... Looming over Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” are two men steered by their own contrarian compasses—John Humphrey Noyes, ...

Engraving of James A. Garfield’s assassination published in Illustrated Newspaper on July 16, 1881 (A. Berghaus and C. Upham/Wikimedia Commons) ...

Of Ohio’s several presidents, James A. Garfield used to be the one I knew the least about. But I know a lot more after reading “An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century ...