The Heroic Origins of the Republican Party in the 1850s

Boston College History Professor Heather Cox Richardson has posted on Youtube.com her 8-part, 8-hour lecture series on the history of the Republican Party. She has studied and taught this history since the 1980s.

Given that the ideas of Republicans dominated the nation from 1860 to 1932, and again from 1980 to at least the 2000s, knowing their history is…