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.

Twenty-six years later, in 1854, the Republican Party was founded. Like the Democrats, they rose phoenix-like from the ashes of a recently disintegrated party — the Whigs.

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 ...

Edwin Feulner will be remembered as the person responsible for the Republican Party’s turn away from truth, expertise and good governance.

With Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College and author of the book To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. About the book: A distinguished American historian ...

But this moment is just the latest on the long timeline of the Republican Party. Lisa Desjardins looks at the birth of the GOP in the years before the Civil War.

Monday's move was the first since 1951. An exterior view of the Little White Schoolhouse, the birthplace of the Republican Party, is shown in 1913, in Ripon, Wisconsin.

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 ...

The Founders intended impeachment would overturn an election My Republican friends are anxious to argue it would be inappropriate to impeach the president now — that voters, and not Congress ...