After all, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president in American history, and his second successor Ulysses S. Grant, already a war hero present during the Confederacy’s surrender in ...

This video shares the fascinating history of the Republican Party. From its inception in the mid-19th century as the party of Lincoln, advocating for the abolition of slavery, to its role in ...

The party was initially called the Democratic-Republican Party, but in the 1830s, divisions within the group began to emerge and in the 1850s, a stand-alone Republican Party emerged.

What happens at the Republican National Convention, being held this week at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, will help determine whether Donald Trump – whose vision of America differs sharply from that ...