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 ...

How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia. 7 minute read. Sheet music (circa 1854) for an anti-immigrant Nativist song proclaims 'Citizen Know-Nothing' as 'Uncle Sam's Youngest Son.' ...

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 ...

Twenty-six years later, in 1854, the Republican Party was founded. Like the Democrats, they rose phoenix-like from the ashes of a recently disintegrated party — the Whigs.

The Republican Party said that its legacy, being founded "for the purpose of ending slavery," compels it "to patriotically defend America's values" and "preserve America's greatness." ...

If you're a Republican — or just interested in the history of one of the United States' oldest political parties — it all started in a little white schoolhouse in Wisconsin.

The founders thought of impeachment as the ultimate protection against someone like Trump. They did not foresee the rise of the Republican Party.