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 ...

Jefferson’s Republican Party, which is actually the ancestor of today’s Democratic Party, thought Adams and his Federalist Party were monarchists and traitors to the American Revolution because they ...

When the Broadway spectacle ‘Hamilton’ debuted it became an instant sensation. Based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, it also related the events that led up to the founding of the United ...

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

The authors of the Constitution envisioned a president above partisan politics. In George Washington, they chose an individual who scorned political parties, calling them "potent engines, by which ...

By the time Alexander Hamilton died on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey, the power of the Federalist Party was in terminal decline. Federalism was born in 1787, when Alexander Hamilton ...

The conservative news publication The Federalist slammed South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem with a blistering takedown Tuesday ...

Roy Lehman writes that the rich will win, again.

Incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party stood for reelection against Vice President Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican Party member. Writing in Mental Floss in 2012 ...

The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period ...

He barely got the job. Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Party’s de facto chief, disliked Adams and preferred South Carolina’s Thomas Pinckney. At the time, voters cast ballots for electors ...

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