The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin to oppose the expansion of slavery into the American west on this day in history, March 20, 1854.

The Republican Party, as we knew it, is dying. The death of a party is not so unusual. Scholars divide U.S. history according to six distinct party systems, each responding to a particular ...

Political parties and a complicated history with race. Black people who could vote tended to support the Republican Party from the 1860s to about the mid-1930s. There were push-and-pull aspects to ...

Republican Party, History of the GOP, accessed May 28, 2020 A.F. Gilman, The Origin of the Republican Party, posted by the Wisconsin Historical Society , circa 1914 ...

Professor Heather Cox Richardson, author of [To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party] talked about the evolution of the "Party of Lincoln." Professor Richardson spoke about the origins ...

History The Real Origins of the “Democrat Party” Troll We can’t blame Joe McCarthy for this one. (Though he was a fan.) ...