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

A Centrist Party wouldn’t be competitive everywhere in the U.S., just as the 1860 Republicans weren’t even on the ballot in the Deep South. The fertile ground in which to drive a new Centrist Party’s ...

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

November 6, Abraham Lincoln wins presidency By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Nov. 6, the 311th day of 2024. There ...

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.

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 ...

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the United ...

Godfrey Rotary Club, now resides at Knapp Field after being sold to Southwestern High School.

The animal mascots that represent the Democrats and Republicans were created over a century ago with color-coding scheme a ...

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term. Federal finance reports ...