Getting the Message Out: The National Republican Party

Have new or soon-to-be voters examine different political parties and their platforms as they figure out which one aligns most with their beliefs. After taking a few online quizzes, students split into pairs to discuss and then...

What is a political party, and what major parties exist in American politics today? How did the party system develop in American history, and how are parties organized? These questions and many other details regarding the political party...

This comprehensive essay lays out the tactics the National Woman's Party used in its campaign to obtain women's suffrage. In addition to an explanation of the various tactics are many photographs from the Library of Congress' Records of...

Read this historical overview of the National Woman's Party, an organization focused on giving women the right to vote. Find out about some of the important figures in the fight and the ways the women tried to push their agenda. [pdf]

The official site of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The event in American history now known as the Boston Tea Party was really anything but a party. Discover how the tax on tea in pre-revolutionary America was seen by colonists as an infringement on their rights and livelihoods, and how...

Read the first few paragraphs of this article to find out about the formation of the Republican Party in 1854 and how it affected the political scene in the last part of the 1850s.

Explains what the Know Nothing party represented. They emerged in reaction to massive immigration between 1845 and 1855, and to the growing political influence of Roman Catholics.

Article provides a history of the Republican party and details on the eighteen Presidents who have belonged to the Republican Party through George W. Bush.

The home page for the National Teen Age Republicans. There are many links to different Republican sites and more information on the TARS (Teen Age Republicans).