The new limited series dramatizes the brief tenure of the 20th commander in chief, who was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a lawyer who believed he’d secured Garfield’s election Based on a True ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of President James Garfield stands at the east end of Piatt Park near the Main Library. Garfield was assassinated in 1881 ...

Michael Shannon has a lot of love for James Garfield. The actor, 51, shared that he was excited to play the former United States president in the new Netflix series Death By Lightning for many reasons ...

When President James A. Garfield was shot at a Washington, D.C., train station in July 1881 — just four months into his presidency — no one could have predicted that his death would take months to ...

‘Death by Lightning’ follows the unplanned election of President James Garfield, as well as his untimely death in 1881 Netflix's Death by Lightning retells the events surrounding President James ...

PRESIDENT GARFIELD: From Radical to Unifier. By C.W. Goodyear. Simon & Schuster. 624 pages. $35. Writing a book about James Garfield is no easy task. The 20th president who served the second shortest ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. C.W. Goodyear's "President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier" (Simon & Schuster, a division of Paramount Global) is a ...

WILLOUGHBY, Ohio — Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not all that surprising that the new Netflix limited series ...

Long before the term “parasocial relationship” made its way into therapy sessions and celebrity thinkpieces, there was Charles Guiteau — a failed lawyer, wannabe preacher, and self-styled political ...

No chapter of the American story has caused historians more embarrassment than the Gilded Age, that national adolescence bracketed by soldier-turned-politician Ulysses S. Grant and ...

Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not all that surprising that the new Netflix limited series he’s created, ...