In March 1801, after the deeply partisan presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson rose in the U.S. Capitol to take the ...

The bitter 1800 presidential election tested the democratic structure of the United States just a few years after the revolution that had created the young nation. The sitting vice president, Thomas ...

James Madison, writing in August of 1823 from his home in Montpelier, Virginia, to which he repaired in what turned out be a futile effort to retire from public life, continued to assess the defects ...

The 2024 election has finally ended. What happens now? Theres 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 ...

Explore the Electoral College, a system that elects the U.S. president. Learn about its history, process, and how it differs from popular vote.

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

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.

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