In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson ... Though the contest was played out largely in the print media, the unsparing personal attacks on the character and temperament of the nominees resembled ...

However, the most divisive delay in a presidential election occurred during the 1800 race, when Thomas Jefferson challenged incumbent John Adams. It was the longest election in U.S. history ...

Talk Radio Show in Print, where we’ve invited two special ... They can’t top our presidential election of 1800. After two centuries, we can laugh about it now, but back then our campaigns ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

An earlier contest has much to say to the present. The presidential election of 1800 was a crisis of the first order, featuring extreme polarization, wild accusations, and name-calling—the ...

With all of those important historical implications, it’s unsurprising that we overlook the most basic element of the election of 1800 — it took a really, really long time to resolve.

There are lessons for them — and those who oppose them — in the election of 1800, generally considered to be the nastiest in American history. It might be useful to examine another such moment ...

Just as truth persists, however, so does friendship. Twelve years after the vicious election of 1800, Adams and Jefferson began writing letters to each other and became friends again. They ...

This is the fourth in the series. Thomas Jefferson called his election "the Revolution of 1800" because it marked the first time that power in America passed from one party to another. He promised ...

To conclude this brief cycle of columns, I want to take a look at the first and most consequential electoral crisis in American history: the election of 1800. On Dec. 3 of that year, the 138 ...

Though the contest was played out largely in the print media, the unsparing personal ... Also like today, the election of 1800 seemed to last forever. “Electioneering is already begun ...