Charles Guiteau was so unpopular at Oneida that he ... Physical union . . . was as holy as the Garden of Eden and God in heaven,” Wels quotes Noyes as saying. Part of Noyes’ philosophy was ...

A Washington exhibit on the killing of U.S. President James Garfield opened 125 years after he was shot and is due to close 125 years after his death. Charles Julius Guiteau (pronounced ...

Charles Guiteau, the man known to American history as the assassin of President James Garfield, may have been both innocent and guilty at the same time. Guiteau himself famously said as much while ...

In a 1881 political cartoon, Charles Julius Guiteau approaches President Garfield at the White House to ask for a diplomatic post. Guiteau assassinated Garfield in 1881. You’ve already read the ...

The Deadly Story of the U.S. Civil Service : Throughline When James Garfield won the Presidency in 1880, Charles Guiteau got ready to accept his new government job. No one had actually offered him ...

Tour guides and history textbooks tend to gloss over the kind of man Charles Guiteau was by calling him a “disgruntled office seeker,” just like the sanitizing use of the term “disgruntled ...

Charles J. Guiteau said he wanted to kill President James A. Garfield “in an American manner.” Gilbert King President James A. Garfield lay in a rodent-infested sickroom in the White House ...