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

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

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

Offerman, best known as Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), has since starred on The Great North (2021–2025), ...

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

Based on the novel Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard, ...

In the late 19th Century, James Garfield promised progress and reform – but four months after his inauguration he was shot.

Garfield had come to the convention to stump for a candidate, not become one. He was a delegate who, he told the convention, opposed the “unit rule,” which allowed state bosses to cast all a state’s ...

When I started writing Arthur, Nick was really the voice that I had in my mind the entire time,” Death By Lightning showrunner Mike Makowsky reveals.

Many Americans may not be familiar with James Garfield’s brief presidency, let alone his brutal assassination. But Netflix ...