The Civil War brought tensions over slavery to ... Amidst all of this, James Garfield was elected president, bringing hope to Americans of all backgrounds across the nation.

This president was born in a log cabin, and from humble beginnings became a Civil War general, a congressman, and a president. James Abram Garfield was also a born-again Christian, saved at age 18 ...

On the morning of July 2, 1881, a man wearing a black slouch hat and a tattered dark suit crept up behind President James ... When Garfield was shot, there were no meaningful civil service rules ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew Johnson.

In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters ... soldiers of the new war, representing the same ideas of union, having added strength and glory to the monument reared by ...

James Garfield. He was inaugurated as president in 1881, a time when the country was still healing from the wounds of the Civil War. He was considered effective, but was assassinated just nine ...

The idea caught on in America after Britain adopted its own civil service in the mid-19th century. But it wasn’t until Mr. Guiteau gunned down Garfield that it caught fire. President James A.