Which Republican president was better: Donald Trump or Abraham Lincoln? Presidential historians ranked Lincoln as the nation’s greatest president in a 2017 survey, and the 16th president boasts ...

“Because the Republican Party hasn’t been the party of Abraham Lincoln since Jim Crow, since the Reconstruction, since forever. So let’s not twist history around.” ...

Republicans invoked Abraham Lincoln often this past year as their idea of the cornerstone of a politics of ... confirmed that Bush “wants the Republican Party to wear Lincoln’s mantle again.

Eventually, disagreements about slavery led to the creation of the Republican Party and the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860. Republicans have made critical ...

Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Together we passed the Civil Rights Act, and together we fought to eliminate Jim Crow Laws.

Beginning with the 1850s formation of Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party, the nation has undergone progressive and regressive political fluctuations and ideological governing transitions ...

An Indiana Republican suggested that "colored people" wouldn't have basketball if not for former President Abraham Lincoln. During Sunday's (November 17) episode of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal ...

To the editor: Columnist Mark Z. Barabak was spot on about California turning away from the Republican Party. Inspired by President Abraham Lincoln’s principles, the GOP was once known as the ...

Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president, had close ties to Decatur, Ill., where I was raised. I lived across the street from Fairview Park, where he practiced law downstairs and slept ...