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 ...

This was the backdrop to the election of 1800, which led to the first peaceful transfer of power in U.S. history — an essential republican tradition. In this episode, historian Alan Taylor of ...

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 ...