We stand to-day upon an eminence which overlooks a hundred years of national life--a century crowded with perils, but crowned with the triumphs of liberty and law. Before continuing the onward ...

Top left photo: Newly inaugurated President James A. Garfield reviews the inaugural parade on March 4, 1881. Top right photo: President Garfield’s inaugural parade, March 4, 1881.

James A. Garfield (1831–1881) won the 1880 presidential election by less than 0.1 percent of the total votes cast. He had been a professor and a minister before his strong antislavery views drew him ...

Nothing says, “Welcome, Mr. President,” like 3,000 gas lights and a big hulking statue. At least, that is what America decided in 1881, the year James Garfield was sworn into office.

WASHINGTON — James Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was assassinated in 1881. But unlike Ford’s Theatre, where 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot, the site where ...

The Inauguration of General James A. Garfield, as President of the United States, will take place in Washington, D.C., March 4th, 1881.

The southeast corner of the Rotunda of the new United States National Museum building, now the Arts and Industries Building, decorated for President James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur's Inaugural ...

The speaker will be a ranger from the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor. Naturally, they will also highlight President Garfield’s ball at the Smithsonian Institution.

During summers spent as a seasonal interpreter at the James A. Garfield National Historic site in Mentor, park ranger Alan Gephardt has had access to the 20th U.S. president’s letter, diaries… ...

James Garfield: A Look Ahead “He is a scholar who for thoroughness and breadth of culture has had no equal in the White House since the younger Adams ….