Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast regularly skewered Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies as dangerous and destructive; clockwise from top left: Johnson as a Medusa-headed Lady Justice in Southern Justice, Johnson as Iago to a wounded soldier of the U.S. Colored Troops as Othello, King Andy with "prime minister" Seward, and Johnson as ...
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".
Anti-Reconstruction Segregation: ... Political cartoon from 1877 by Thomas Nast portraying the Democratic Party ... It was a movement that gathered energy up until ...
In both houses of Congress, the faction known as the "Radical Republicans" prevailed and imposed much harsher terms of Reconstruction on the states of the former Confederacy. [19] On March 2, 1867, the First Reconstruction Act was passed – over President Johnson's veto [20] – to provide for more federal control in the South. Military ...
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 ...
The White League, also known as the White Man's League, [2] [3] was a white supremacist paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen (emancipated Black former slaves) into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing, while also being supported by regional elements of the Democratic Party.
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 ...