Hamilton’s political maneuvering saw Thomas Jefferson elected the third President of the United States. The Stage is Set: A ...

Four years later, the same two candidates raised the stakes during the 1800 election. Jefferson, who had lost in 1796, paid the editor of the Richmond Examiner to print anti-Federalist articles ...

Amelia Simmons, author of the USA’s first published cookbook, mentions “Hartford Election Cake” in the second edition of her book American Cookery, published around 1800. Meanwhile ...