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Southern Justice is unusually text-heavy for a Nast cartoon; half of the text is a list of references to incidents visually described, half is an excerpt from Andrew Johnson's veto of the military government bill. Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts over Johnson's veto.
Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum – Massacre of the Innocents at New Orleans, July 30, 1866 (generally known simply as Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum) is a political cartoon by the 19th-century American artist Thomas Nast that depicts U.S. president Andrew Johnson as Emperor Nero at an ancient Roman arena, "figuratively fiddling with the...
Thomas Nast's birth certificate issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria on September 26, 1840 [1]. Thomas Nast (/ n æ s t /; German:; September 26, 1840 [2] – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
Thomas Nast illustration of the New Orleans massacre of 1866. The Freedmen massacres were a series of attacks on African-Americans which occurred in the states of the former Confederacy during Reconstruction, in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Thomas Nast's caricature of the Cincinnati Convention from Harper's Weekly, April 13, 1872. Historian Richard Gerber argues that most authors and historians portray the Liberal Republicans as an aberration, noting the many unresolved issues of the Reconstruction Era. He groups the historical interpretations of the party that prevailed after ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettySchools need to be a whole lot more honest with America’s students. If we don’t teach students about the past, we aren’t equipping ...
Huntzicker, William E. "Thomas Nast, Harper's Weekly, and the Election of 1876." in After The War (Routledge, 2017) pp. 53–68. Morris, Roy Jr. (2004). Fraud Of The Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden And The Stolen Election Of 1876. Polakoff, Keith Ian (1973). The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction.
The Reconstruction Amendments, or the Civil War Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870. [1] The amendments were a part of the implementation of the Reconstruction of the American South which occurred after the Civil War .