A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

But I’m struck by the similarities between 2024 and a much earlier election, one of the most consequential in our nation’s ...

The US is not unaccustomed to contentious elections, but they rarely result in violence. However, an electoral tie and a ...

Decision Day has become divisive but in Dr. Sarah Purcell’s history class at Grinnell College students learn it is hardly ...

The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now? There’s a 2½-month period between Election Day and Inauguration Day.

John Adams was many things: lawyer ... issues—but he was successful and ultimately avoided war with the Treaty of Montefontaine in 1800. During the election of 1796, the Federalists quickly labeled ...

The peculiar result of the election of 1800 is familiar to most readers ... contest was not one of a personal character, between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, but between the advocates and ...

In a case of stunningly bad timing, the election of 1800 came before news of Adams' successful diplomacy reached America. John Adams lost the election. Republicans Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied ...

A constitutional amendment more than two centuries old determines the choice of winner in case of a draw View on euronews ...

Incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party stood for ... Neither is the threat to subvert the election through violence. Rumors spread in 1860, among the supporters of slavery, of ...

In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans defeated the incumbent Federalist President John Adams. At ...

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, ...