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

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

In 1862, Garfield was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but did not resign his commission from the army and take his seat until President Lincoln, in need of allies in Congress, urged ...

During both of his campaigns, current President Donald J. Trump aggressively courted Christians, netting support from 48% of Protestants, including 72% of white evangelicals, and 52% of Catholics.

This president was born in a log cabin, and from humble beginnings became a Civil War general, a congressman, and a president. James Abram Garfield was also a born-again Christian, saved at age 18 ...

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.

President James A. Garfield was not from Cincinnati. He was from Ohio, though – born in the former Orange Township in Cuyahoga County in 1831.

James A. Garfield National Historic Site The site preserves the property associated with the 20th President of the United States, James Abram Garfield, and includes the first presidential library ...

James A. Garfield served as President of the United States from March 4, 1881, to September 19, 1881. The Presidency now fell upon Chester Arthur who in his tenure would rise above party politics.

On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad depot in Washington, D.C.

Presenter David Lintern will discuss, “James A. Garfield the Early Years.” Lintern has been an interpreter/tour guide and providing programs at the JAG National Historic Site since 2005.