In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran focuses not just on Nast's political cartoons for Harper's but also on his place within the complexities of Gilded Age politics and ...

In his book, “Doomed by Cartoon,” John Adler notes Tweed first appeared in Nast’s Harper’s Weekly cartoons in 1869 as a shadowy figure in the background of scenes of corruption.

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 ...

Nast picked on Republicans as well as Democrats. In his Nov. 7, 1874 cartoon labeled “Third Term Panic,” Nast commented on Republican Ulysses Grant’s consideration of a third term as president.

Political cartoons were perhaps the ... Some of the most powerful symbolism in the two-party system comes from the Harper’s Weekly cornerstone Thomas Nast, ... Have we entered a new Gilded Age?

Recently my favorite son sent me an email of a political cartoon. He wasn’t aware that I had written a couple of columns on political cartoonists so this was just serendipity. The one he forw… ...

Thomas Nast struggled in school and spent most of his time drawing on his desk. At home, he covered the walls with his pictures. Drawing permeated.

Fiona Deans Halloran, author of [Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons], talked about the cartoonist best known for his illustrations of the Republican elephant and the Democratic ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam.

Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with both of them — he introduced the donkey first, on Jan. 19, 1870: 155 years ago Sunday.

Thus when, in the 1870s, Nast launched his campaign against Tammany and Tweed, it was in greatest measure because the New York City political mob represented, to his mind, everything that ...

Fiona Deans Halloran, author of [Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons], talked about the cartoonist best known for his illustrations of the Republican elephant and the Democratic ...