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.

When did the Republican Party start? The second meeting was held at a school in Ripon, later known as the Little White Schoolhouse. Going house to house and even stopping people in the street ...

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 ...

But this moment is just the latest on the long timeline of the Republican Party. Amna Nawaz: Our Lisa Desjardins is back now with a look at the birth of the GOP and what it means for today.

The Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon is known as the 'Birthplace of the Republican Party.' Here's what to know about its new director, and more news.

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 ...

This election marked, among other things, the birth of a new Republican-led multiracial working-class coalition and the beginning of an upheaval in the Democratic Party.