German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

Have you ever wondered where America’s political parties got their donkey and elephant mascots? Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with ...

A t the height of his powers, Jay Gould was known by many names, few of them flattering. People called him the Skunk of Wall ...

Thomas Nast’s political cartoons are the best record we have of that era of American public life a century ago. He published more than 3000 drawings over the course of his career, the great ...

In a world where personal branding is paramount, individuals are often marketed like products. Nowhere is this phenomenon ...

When people ask what the resistance to Trump will look like this time, I hope a salient feature will be individual refusals ...

The elephant became linked to the Republican Party largely due to the work of political cartoonist Thomas Nast, who is often credited with popularizing both symbols. In an 1874 cartoon published ...

Man Behind The Depiction: Thomas Nast Thomas Nast, America's first great political cartoonist, created detailed wood engravings in Harper's Weekly from 1862 to 1886. He tackled issues like the ...

THOMAS NAST, a German-born caricaturist, has been hailed as the “father of the American cartoon” by critics ... (Incivility and name-calling in the political sphere are hardly modern innovations.) ...

could mean the return of machine politics under Trump 2.0. A 19th-century political cartoon by Thomas Nast highlights the difficulty of prosecuting acts of corruption committed by New York's ...