If you are a Civil War buff and enjoy looking at historic cartoons, there’s a new exhibit you shouldn’t miss this holiday season. Thomas Nast has been dubbed the “Father of the American ...

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 ...

Not mere editorials, Nast’s cartoons captured public ... his drawings from Union lines during the Civil War did much to ... The name Thomas Nast may now be known now principally to ...

Beginning in the 1860s, at the height of the Civil War, Nast began drawing a series of Christmas cartoons for Harper's Weekly. One of the earliest cartoons in the set features Santa with Union ...

The political and social hot-button issues of the 21st century – the economy, Wall Street meltdown, foreclosures, military spending, labor vs. capital, the immigration and assimilation of rel… ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...