Republican Party

<p>As president, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a moderate position on many issues, believing that “good judgment seeks balance and progress.”</p>

This document, a reprint of the original broadside containing the Republican Platform of 1860, was adopted by the National Republican Convention held in Chicago, IL on May 17, 1860. The Republican Party platform during the election of 1860 called for supporting the principles of the Constitution,…

This cruel political cartoon relies on racial stereotypes commonplace in the northern United States as well as the south at this date. Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln flank an undersized Black man who wears short pants and supports himself on a staff.

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> While Bryan stumped up and down the land, McKinley let the voters come to his lawn in Canton—and they came</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Maria Monk’s lurid “disclosures” and Samuel Morse’s dire warnings launched a crusade of bigotry that almost won the White House</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Gargantuan, gross, and cynical, the patrician boss Boies Penrose descended from aristocracy to dominate Pennsylvania Republican politics for thirty years</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The two-party system, undreamt of by the founders of the republic, has been one of its basic shaping forces ever since their time.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A long-time Republican-party insider and close student of its past discusses how the party has changed over the years, for better and for worse, and where it may be headed.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It’s always been the Republicans.</span></p>