"These were people who wanted to form a new party," said Russell Blake, a history professor emeritus at nearby Ripon College. ... was the first Republican Party nominee for president, in 1856.

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 ...

House passes Trump-backed bill, tightening his grip on the Republican Party despite backlash over debt and cuts to Medicaid.

House Republicans muscled the “big, beautiful bill” through a procedural hurdle on the floor on Wednesday night, setting the ...

Rebublican Party History, Pt. 2 Veteran newsman Robert Trout has the second of two reports about the history of the Republican party, through his own reporting on the last 17 conventions over a ...

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 ...

Nowadays, it refers to ideas that have become increasingly popular in the Republican Party and conservative movement ever since Donald Trump famously descended the Trump Tower escalator in 2015 ...