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In honor of the upcoming election on November 8th, (don't forget to cast your vote!) take a break from this election and see how those before us have expressed themselves about issues of the time ...
Keppler's 1889 cartoon depicts monopolists as dominating American politics as the "Bosses of the Senate". The Bosses of the Senate is an American political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, [1] [2] published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine. [3] [4] The cartoon depicts the United States Senate as a body under the control of "captain of ...
"The White Man's Burden" was first published in The New York Sun on February 1, 1899 and in The Times (London) on February 4, 1899. [7] On 7 February 1899, during senatorial debate to decide if the US should retain control of the Philippine Islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from the Spanish Empire, Senator Benjamin Tillman read aloud the first, the fourth, and the fifth stanzas ...
A Rake's Progress, Plate 8, 1735, and retouched by William Hogarth in 1763 by adding the Britannia emblem [5] [6]. The pictorial satire has been credited as the precursor to the political cartoons in England: John J. Richetti, in The Cambridge history of English literature, 1660–1780, states that "English graphic satire really begins with Hogarth's Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme".
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Original - Original cartoon of "The Gerry-Mander", this is the political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander.The district depicted in the cartoon was created by Massachusetts legislature to favor the incumbent Democratic-Republican party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists in 1812.
The Pyramid of Capitalist System is a common name of a 1911 American cartoon caricature critical of capitalism, copied from a Russian flyer of c. 1901. [1] [2] The graphic focus is on stratification by social class and economic inequality. [3] [4] The work has been described as "famous", [5] "well-known and widely reproduced". [3]
The American Rattle Snake is a political cartoon drawn by James Gillray and published by William Richardson on April 12, 1782. One of Gillray's earliest prints, it depicts a rattlesnake, symbolizing America, coiled around some British units.