The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin to oppose the expansion of slavery into the American west on this day in history, March 20, 1854.

On March 20, 1854, several dozen citizens, alarmed by the prospect of slavery spreading westward, gathered in a little white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, widely believed to be the birthplace ...

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.

There's an interesting history behind the meaning of GOP and the party's origin in Wisconsin.

The 2016 presidential race has ignited passions, attracted new voters, and surprised pundits at nearly every turn. It’s the kind of election that “people will write about,” says Heather Cox Richardson ...

Republican Party, History of the GOP, accessed May 28, 2020 A.F. Gilman, The Origin of the Republican Party, posted by the Wisconsin Historical Society, circa 1914 ...

If today’s Republican Party is known for fighting the left in the Congress, courts and culture, the Republican Party of the 1850s rose to prominence by building on “the foundational left-wing ...

I n the history of the Republican Party, some states get more credit than others. The Party’s founding is traced to an 1854 gathering in Wisconsin, with a larger follow-up held later that year ...

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 ...

Amid the chaos, sadness and jubilation of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, one should remember that Trump isn’t that far from the ideology the party promoted well into the 20 th century ...