Complain all you want about the “bureaucrats,” but recognize that what they do is make the rule of rule possible. To understand just how vital that is – and to appreciate how much we all take it for ...

This essay is part of "(There is Nothing New) Under the Sun" A monthly column of random, historical vignettes demonstrating ...

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 ...

The Garfield Trail will be presenting a series of events in the second year of its Discovering Garfield Lecture Series. The Garfield Trail is a nonprofit organization that provides philanthropic ...

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 ...

But James Garfield, before being elected president, had a busy political career that often kept him from home. "It is a pity," he once wrote, "That I have so little time to devote to my children." ...

A year after the national centennial, a long-time member of the House of Representatives and future president of the United States reflected on the development of the American legislature.

The Garfield Trail is a nonprofit organization that provides philanthropic support to and promotes the four major sites in Northeast Ohio affiliated with the 20th U.S. President James A.