Local legend says that the "Horace Greeley, Vivus W. Smith and Thurlow Weed made the plans for the Republican Party under" a Syracuse elm tree in 1854.

Sort of. Enter Donald Trump, whose seismic impact on American politics generally, and the Republican Party in particular, cannot be overstated.His takeover (or takedown) of the GOP is stunning ...

What happens at the Republican National Convention, being held this week at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, will help determine whether Donald Trump – whose vision of America differs sharply from that ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death-by-assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. The nation lost more than a champion of civil rights and inclusive, progressive economics that day. It lost one ...

Dr. Ada Fisher is determined to prove that more African Americans should feel comfortable in the Republican Party. Hence she has published “I am a Republican,” a 32-page history of African ...

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does ...