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 ...

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 ...

Popularization: The symbol of the donkey was further popularized by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the 1870s. Nast used the donkey in a series of cartoons to represent 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.) ...

That cartoon was in the great tradition of political cartoonists as the public conscience of America. It’s a tradition that stretches back to Thomas Nast’s 19th-century criticisms of the KKK, and the ...