The republican party or the Grand Old Party – the GOP – as it is popularly called, was founded in March 1854, in Ripon, ...

There are 55 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the United States as he defeated ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.

A quite similar scenario occurred when a Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, when a handful of Democratic ...

Just how witless is his notion that the Civil War was justly avoidable? In 1860 Lincoln and the Republican Party had pledged to prohibit slavery in all states newly admitted to the Union.

The election of 1860 was not only realigning but also ... After the Civil War, Americans realigned into broad coalitions. The Republican Party gained dominance in the North and West, while the ...

The Southerners were also terrified by the 1860 Republican Party platform, which they denounced in frenzied language similar to contemporary progressive critics of Project 2025. The Tarboro ...

The appeal is an appalling document, which exposes both the political bankruptcy of American liberalism and the deplorable ...

The animal mascots that represent the Democrats and Republicans were created over a century ago with color-coding scheme a ...

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term. Federal finance reports ...