KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 7, 1874. The Third-Term Panic by Thomas Nast was the first political cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican Party symbol. The GOP symbol we are now ...
The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of political satire and popular ...
On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.
In this piercing, ingenious account, American studies scholar Heideman (Class Struggle and the Color Line) unpacks why the Republican Party and the business elites that dominated it failed to rein in ...