The Broadway musical Hamilton will soon open in Canada—so now is the perfect time to talk about one of Act II's most pivotal songs: "The Election of 1800." The actual event was even more ...

Author Cliff Sloan and Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar discussed the events and significance of the Election of 1800.

Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results isn’t the first effort to change the outcome of a close race. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson faced a similar and chaotic post-electoral ...

This sent the election to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation would cast a single vote to decide the winner.

The election of 1800 was just the fourth presidential contest in American history, and only the election of 1796, the first without George Washington as a candidate, had been contested.

As Maryland voters await the results of Tuesday's primaries, they can rest assured that the contest won't be as drawn out as the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

The presidential election of 2000 will be remembered for spawning weeks of uncertainty, generating claims and counterclaims of political gamesmanship, and necessitating a 5-4 Supreme Court decision… ...

The contest between John Adams’ Federalists and Thomas Jefferson’s Republicans was one of the most vicious and hyperbolic in American history.

In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson, left, and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, but public opinion sided with Jefferson. The Granger Collection, New York—2 On the afternoon of ...

Andrew O'Shaughnessy talked about the election of 1800 and Thomas Jefferson's "peaceful revolution." He argued that the election was one of the most toxic in U.S. history and that it relied ...