Election integrity is paramount in choosing who governs us. It means nothing to call ourselves a constitutional republic if ...

Renowned political historian Dr. Jay Cost will return to the Jefferson Educational Society (JES) this summer for a week-long ...

With funding woes from the state on the horizon, the schools superintendents had to get creative on how they could support ...

On a windy afternoon in February 1959, 14-year-old Craig Wade scooped up what seemed to be a crumpled rag that was blowing, tumbleweed style, across a railroad track in his hometown, Pittsfield ...

one shared by Thomas Jefferson in letters written six days apart in August 1823, recalled the political intrigue and disreputable deal-making that characterized the election of 1800, the first ...

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the ...

agonizing tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr took 36 votes to resolve in the House of Representatives. We’re not looking at a replay of the 1800 election; history doesn’t repeat itself.

In another parallel to modern politics, the bitterness of the Adams-Jefferson contest in 1800 didn't end with the election itself. And then as now, disgruntled members of one's own party could be ...

Further insult came in 1800 when a document Hamilton had ... defeated Adams in the presidential election. However, Jefferson tied with the number two on the ballot, Burr. It was the first year ...

The most recent episode, Election of 2000 ... The elections of 1860 and 1864 In 1800 there was no campaign. Neither Adams nor Jefferson made any public statements about the office they were ...

It’s actually kind of surprising there has only been one tied election so far, in 1800, between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. That tie was the result of a failure of coordination by ...