Jim Bennett writes a weekly column offering historical context to current events. Bennett served as Secretary of State of Alabama from 1993 - 2003 and from 2013 - 2015. He was a reporter for the ...

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.

Topics included the controversy of his failed bid in the election of 1824 and the campaign tactics of his successful election in 1828. 5 minutes. Bell Ringer Assignment.

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

Thomas DiBacco writes that the campaign barbs this presidential year are genteel next to the 1828 election between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.

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 ...

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.