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 ...

In addition to these two totem animals, the man who thought them up — political cartoonist Thomas Nast — also thought up the ...

It is not every day that an exhibition begs, even dares, to be banned. Ban This Show, on view at Fort Works Art, does just that.

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 ...

"At statehood, California was not a part of the East Coast circus circuits. Yet the first circus west of the Mississippi was Joseph A. Rowe's Olympic Circus, run by a renowned equestrian," writes ...

“A Visit From St. Nicholas” was published in 1823, and “A Christmas Carol” in 1843. Thomas Nast’s drawings of jolly Santa Claus debuted in 1862. Meanwhile, in 1841, Queen Victoria’s ...

(In the Civil War, Sam grew a beard modeled on Lincoln’s.) Uncle Sam didn’t really become a household name until Thomas Nast’s sketches in Harper’s Weekly in the late 1860s and ’70s ...

By the 1860s, famous cartoonist Thomas Nast had turned Santa Claus into a fully human-sized character and given him a home at the North Pole. Read more of this story from our National Museum of ...

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 ...