The Republican Party, forged from a coalition of political forces to oppose the advance of slavery in the American west, was created in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in history, March 20, 1854 ...

After passage of his One Big Beautiful Bill Act, President Donald Trump is on something of a roll — and Republicans are ...

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 ...

Interestingly though, the Republican Party was certainly not "old" when the GOP acronym came into use. The party was only founded two decades prior in 1854.. According to History Channel writer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet, history provides no real playbook for McConnell and other Republican leaders to stem the tide as they battle with rank-and-file members over the party’s direction.

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