March 20, 1854 - The founding meeting of the Republican Party took place in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854. Former Whig Party members gathered to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery ...

The Republican Party was born in 1854, largely to oppose expanding slavery and, for many of its founders, to abolish it. By 1860, the party’s platform declared the African slave trade a “crime against ...

Over the past few months, during his agency’s chaotic crackdowns in Chicago and Minneapolis, the U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino has worn an unusual uniform: a wide-lapel greatcoat with brass ...