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As 19 news gets ready to celebrate our country’s 250-th birthday next year. We’re profiling people and places that are the ...
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
Learn about the history of Memorial Day. Discover facts about Memorial Day and why we recognize it as a national holiday.
Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day, a day to honor those who lost their lives fighting in the Civil War. Ohio Rep. James A. Garfield, a former general and future U.S. president ...
Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day, a day to honor those who lost their lives fighting in the Civil War. Ohio Rep. James A. Garfield, a former general and future U.S. president ...
Local News President James A. Garfield Lecture Series returns ‘The Early Years’ is one of five events beginning March 26 Subscribers are entitled to 10 gift sharing articles each month.
James Garfield was a Union Army officer before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives. He served for almost two decades before winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1880, but never took it.
Historian C.W. Goodyear’s biography of President James Garfield shows how he stayed civil during the contentious political era of Reconstruction.