How did Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party become Donald Trump’s party? It’s a long time coming, former ODU vice president ...

Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing ... 1860: Republicans: Abraham Lincoln The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings.

On the eve of the American Civil War, two years before he was even to become president, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a new political party at their Republican Convention in 1858 in Springfield ...

This proved prophetic with the collapse of the national party systems ... achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

The Federalist Party, the nation’s first political party, saw only one president, John Adams. Additionally, Abraham Lincoln, ...

The death of three children and her husband's preoccupation with political matters during the Civil War would only make matters worse. Abraham ... members of his party, Lincoln believed it would ...

When Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with an inaugural address which, while not required ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.