Eugene Meyer

Jul 15, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Eugene Meyer |Paul Dickson |Bruce Watson

Two shots rang out in the railroad station, and the President of the United States slumped to the floor, mortally wounded Early on the morning of July 2, 1881, President James A. Garfield was awakened in the White House by his two older sons, Harry, seventeen, and James, fifteen. Their mood was sportive, for they were all about to leave on a vacation together. They challenged their father to jump over the bed.

Jul 2, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Joshua Zeitz |Lonnie Bunch |Carolyn Eisenberg |Eugene Meyer

Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year It has been called the “burned-over decade,” a “dream and a nightmare,” the “definitive end of the Dark Ages, and the beginning of a more hopeful and democratic period” in American history.