Netflix’s hit new historical series “Death by Lightning” tells the story of the assassination in 1881 of President James ...

The new Netflix miniseries about James Garfield’s election and assassination gets a lot right, but not everything.

Chester A. Arthur only served out the rest of James Garfield’s term and is one of the United States’ least memorable ...

Our worst image of ourselves tells us that there is nothing more American than getting senselessly gunned down by a ...

In the summer of 1881, a gunshot at a Washington D.C. train station set off one of the most dramatic chapters in American ...

Why history remembers some people while others fade into obscurity is the question underlying "Death by Lightning," Netflix's ...

Netflix's Death by Lightning premiered in November 2025 and quickly became a critically acclaimed series that narrates the ...

Mike Makowsky had spent months working on obtaining permission from the government to see the real thing, so perhaps it’s not ...

The jaunty and absorbing new miniseries “Death by Lightning” posits that America had the closest thing to such a leader in ...

While the attack isn’t immediately deadly, Garfield suffers from an infection and prodding from doctors to the point of death a few months after the ordeal. Guiteau is sent to prison, and he believes ...

Netflix’s Death by Lightning revisits the life, legacy, and tragic assassination of President James Garfield — America’s ...

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