"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.

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 ...

Professor Heather Cox Richardson, author of [To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party] talked about the evolution of the "Party of Lincoln." Professor Richardson spoke about the origins ...

Musk said he wants to form the America Party. A third party has never won the presidency, but they have influenced elections, ...

The first milestone year in the history of the Republican Party’s shift toward conservatism is 1932. On the other hand; what happened in 1932 was a paradigm shift in how each party defined itself.

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 ...

Yet, history provides no real playbook for McConnell and other Republican leaders to stem the tide as they battle with rank-and-file members over the party’s direction.

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 ...

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 ...

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.