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. And in case ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of historical events and the work of political cartoonists, particularly Thomas Nast. The Donkey as a ...

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.

THOMAS NAST, a German-born caricaturist, has been hailed as the “father of the American cartoon” by critics and historians. His most famous work appeared in Harper’s Weekly between 1862 and ...

Emancipation from an engraved illustration by Thomas Nast 1840-1902, c1865. Thomas Nast's ... [+] celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a ...

Generate a political cartoon in the style of Thomas Nast of a huge money bag with tiny limbs but a head ...

Decades later, the connection was cemented by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. In his 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion,” Nast used the donkey to represent ...

Our modern day version of Santa is actually a combination of various legends and traditions from around the world. The post Who is Santa Claus, Anyway? appeared first on Reader's Digest Canada.

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 ...