In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson, left, and Aaron Burr each received 73 electoral votes, but public opinion sided with Jefferson. The Granger Collection, New York—2 On the afternoon of September ...

This is the sixth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, Election of 2000, was published July 11. The opposing parties accused one ...

Thomas Jefferson once called the letters of A person “the only full and genuine journal of his life.” By that standard, Princeton University Press’s exhaustive Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the 31st ...

Election eve, 1800 -- An affection that can never die : Adams and Jefferson -- Dark and menacing evils : creating the new national system, 1786-1792 -- War on our own citizens : partisanship, ...

The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 alone featured almost everything that's made ...

On the afternoon of September 23, 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, from his Monticello home, wrote a letter to Benjamin Rush, the noted Philadelphia physician. One matter dominated Jefferson’s ...