The holidays inspire feelings of empathy, joy, and nostalgia, which Jim Davis reflects in these Garfield comics, perfect for ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. After his death, James Garfield got the full Horatio Alger treatment.

The President James A. Garfield assassination is back, thanks to the Netflix series Death by Lightning. Garfield’s character foil is Charles Guiteau, who shot Garfield in 1881, four months into his ...

On July 2, 1881, United States president James A. Garfield waited at Washington, D.C.’s Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station to board a train that would take him to New England to begin his summer ...

Netflix’s new mini-series "Death by Lightning" revisits the assassination of President James Garfield, but leaves out a key setting: Long Branch, the Jersey Shore town where he spent his final days.

Engraving of the United States National Museum (now called the Arts and Industries Building) by Cluss & Schulze, Architects, depicting the interior of the building decorated for President James A.

Andrew Garfield is trying to remember what he had for lunch—which is important only because he’s trying to figure out what to have for dinner. And that matters only because the 42-year-old actor is ...

Author Candice Millard, from left, Timothy Garfield, great-great-grandson of President James A. Garfield, and Mike Makowsky, the creator of Netflix series “Death by Lightning,” based on Garfield, ...

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In the first episode of the Netflix miniseries "Death by Lightning," a man from Pennsylvania changes history by submitting a single vote for James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention.

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, ...

Assassins lying in wait, political corruption, drunken vice presidential nominees: Is Netflix's "Death by Lightning" a wild invention of Hollywood, or was 19th century political history actually this ...