If you thought today’s politics of attack ads, mud-slinging and character assassination are dreadful, you should’ve witnessed the election of 1828, the ugliest in America’s history.

The election of Donald Trump was a surprise and ... despair of well-bred and well-educated Americans ever since he defeated the supremely gifted John Quincy Adams in the 1828 presidential election.

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the ...

Many people wonder if 2024 will be the nastiest election in American history. To which the 1828 contest says, “Hold my beer.” ...

Things would get even more heated in 1828, and once again an Adams ... The election of 1884 provided another example of delightful mudslinging, this time in the form of short rhymes.

Description. Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem discussed the results of the 1828 presidential election, which saw Andrew Jackson elected to his first term.

Around the time the 14th Amendment was written, Webster's 1828 dictionary defined "insurrection" broadly. Use that to determine if Trump qualifies for the ballot.

That’s unprecedented. Since the formation of the modern party system in 1828, no party has won the popular vote more than six times over any eight-election sequence.