He may be known as the Great Emancipator, but Abraham Lincoln was first and foremost a party leader.

On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office to become the first Republican president in American history. Two ...

Jul. 11—In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid ...

WASHINGTON — For decades, Republican activists around the country could count on observing the same party tradition every year: rubber chicken breasts and a cash bar at an annual fund-raising dinner ...

In his more grandiose moments, Donald Trump likes to proclaim himself the greatest president in U.S. history. Greater even than Abraham Lincoln.

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents "That the purity and sanctity of the ballot box shall be preserved": Civil War politics and the troops -- "You must have learned ...