CSPAN3 History Of The Republican Party March 30, 2015
Richardson. She chronicles the evolution of the party of lincoln and examines the origins of the party in the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like president Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and ronald , reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been rea...