Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Dr. King's dream for bipartisanship and collaboration is as urgent as ever in the new Trump era, writes John Hope Bryant ...

Jackson’s party eventually dropped the “Republican” from its name. Today’s Republican party would be formed by anti-slavery activists in 1854.

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

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it is an oddly little known fact that the Republican Party was itself born on an anti-slavery, social justice platform in 1854, in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act which sought to expand slavery ...

The Republican Party, which succeeded the Whig Party, was founded in 1854 by Americans opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which authorized the expansion of slavery into new territories.

In a way, in 1854, he was running against Stephen Douglas ... RUBENSTEIN: How does he become the nominee of a relatively new Republican Party for president? INSKEEP: When you have lots of ...

Figuring out the ever-changing political landscape in the United States can be challenging. This is especially the case if ...

But Trump proved his doubters wrong and quickly got to work refashioning the Republican Party into the party of Trump. The ...