Here's a look at what today's Republican Party stands for, and a little history of how it got here. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

Jefferson and his colleagues formed the Republican Party in the early 1790s. By 1795, the Federalists had become a party in name as well. After John Adams, their candidate, was elected president ...