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

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 Madison-Jefferson letters presaged the 1824 election which, thrown to the House, resulted in the election of John Quincy ...

The election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that's made President Trump's three presidential contests a wild ride.

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

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

John Adams lost that election, and conceded. "Jefferson calls that election of 1800 the Second American Revolution," said Smith. "And it was precisely because, for the first time in this country ...

We’re exactly one week out from the general election and your neighbors are preparing to man polling locations and secure ...

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

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 ...