There’s a true story behind American Primeval—and it’s just as grisly
Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...
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The Know-Nothings: the United States' first anti-immigration party
As the Know-Nothings’ membership grew, they would shed their clandestine nature and eventually become the American Party in the 1850s. Party members tended to come from the working classes and ...
Column: GOP made a slow but startling transition from Lincoln to Trump
How did Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party become Donald Trump’s party? It’s a long time coming, former ODU vice president ...
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Slavery and the Civil WarRise of the Republican Party in the 1850s
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.