Historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, provide scholarly views to balance the public sensation around the recent DNA test results showing that Jefferson was probably the father of his sla
Essays examine the electoral, social, and political implications of the controversial presidential election of 1800 and the electoral impasse that forced a House vote to determine the winner.
When American historians planned and made plane reservations to attend a conference at Monticello in December 2000 to discuss the most controversial election in US history to date, they had no idea th