Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are producers on Death by Lightning, a Netflix historical show whose ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...