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 ...

Andrew O'Shaughnessy talked about the election of 1800 and Thomas Jefferson's "peaceful revolution." He argued that the election was one of the most toxic in U.S. history and that it relied ...

As Maryland voters await the results of Tuesday's primaries, they can rest assured that the contest won't be as drawn out as the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

How the Heated, Divisive Election of 1800 Was the First Real Test of American Democracy A banner from the Smithsonian collections lays out the stakes of Jefferson vs. Adams ...

In the election of 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated Federalist Party candidate and incumbent President John Adams in a contest that had to be ...

The election of 1800 was just the fourth presidential contest in American history, and only the election of 1796, the first without George Washington as a candidate, had been contested.

“Thomas Jefferson, who began so many things in the early career of the United States, was the first object upon whom the Campaign Liar tried his unpracticed talents.” ...

When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding Father died on the Fourth of July, but he also perished on the same exact day ...

The contest between John Adams’ Federalists and Thomas Jefferson’s Republicans was one of the most vicious and hyperbolic in American history.

Jefferson himself dubbed the election "The Revolution of 1800." Challenger Thomas Jefferson, left, defeated President John Adams in the bitterly divisive election of 1800.

No direct comment from Abigail Adams has come to light, but Gordon-Reed argues in The Hemingses of Monticello that the scandal deepened her estrangement from Jefferson after the bitter 1800 election.

Accusations of foreign interference? Check -- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the candidates in 1800, each thought the other was subservient to a foreign power.