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 ...

In 1956, another Republican functionary, L. Richard Guylay, the RNC’s public relations director, made it the Republican Party’s “official policy” “to refer to the opposition as the ...

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.

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 ...