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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Senator SEWARD, in his speech on Friday night, declared the whole aim and duty of the Republican Party to be, to leave Slavery just where it is. They do not seek to abolish or disturb it ...

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 ...

There are 55 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the ...

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