The Anti-Masons were the first recognized third party. It was formed in 1828 in opposition to the Freemasons, a secret ...

The earlier Missouri Compromise had prohibited slavery in those areas. For anti-slavery Americans like the ones meeting in Ripon, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a profound betrayal.

The record suggests that it takes a generation or more to establish a new political party with a chance to win an election.

Surging immigration, populist nativism, Great Replacement theorising, allegations of election theft. We're talking, of course ...

History can be cruel. Charles Sumner, the great abolitionist senator from Massachusetts, is remembered only for being beaten ...

Elon Musk's plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics since ...

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes of the Whigs.

The delegates gathering in Milwaukee this week are awfully different than the band of abolitionists who founded the Republican Party in this Wisconsin town 170 years ago.

1860: A four-way presidential race sees Republican Abraham Lincoln face a Northern Democrat, a Southern Democrat and the pro-slavery Constitutional Union Party.

The survey's findings show that only 2 in 10 Americans would agree with House Republicans on Medicaid being overfunded.

The new Republican Party positioned itself as the party of freedom and equality, with a strong anti-slavery platform.

A months-long GOP effort to rid North Carolina of diversity, equity and inclusion policies culminated on Wednesday in ...