instead commissioning much-needed updates to the presidential home. Widowed in 1880, Arthur asked his younger sister, Mary Arthur McElroy, to oversee the customary social duties of the First Lady ...

Gearing up for the 1880 presidential race, the parties gathered up tens of thousands of youths—Baptist farm boys, Irish immigrant factory hands, freed African Americans and young girls dressed ...

Amidst all of this, James Garfield was elected president, bringing hope to Americans of all backgrounds across the nation.