LibGuides: PO344: The Presidential Election Through Humor: Political Cartoons

Young America Rising

*Jacob Dallas (?), Harper's Weekly Sept. 1, 1860 p.560. http://elections.harpweek.com/1860/cartoon-1860-Medium.asp?UniqueID=3&Year=1860

Caption: Columbia - "Well done, Sonny! 'Go it while you're young, for when you're old you can't.' "

AnnTelnaes.com
Ann Telnaes @ The Washington Post
Gary Varvel @ GoComics
Editorial Cartoonists by Political Slant on GoComics
Politics in Graphic Detail
“Politics in Graphic Detail: Exploring History through Political Cartoons” is a digital history exhibit that features political cartoons that span American history from the colonial period through the Progressive Era.
Library of Congress
HarpWeek Political Elections 1860-1912
Political Cartoons @ Townhall.com

The Art of Ill Will (Print Format) by Donald Dewey
Call Number: NC1420 .D49 2007
ISBN: 9780814719855
Publication Date: 2007-09-01
Taking advantage of unlimited access to The Granger Collection, which holds thousands of the most significant works of Thomas Nast and the other early American cartoonists, The Art of Ill Will provides a survey of American history writ large, capturing the voice of the people -- hopeful, angry, patriotic, frustrated -- in times of peace and war, prosperity and depression.
Dr. Seuss Goes to War by Richard H. Minear; Dr. Seuss
ISBN: 9781595589903
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Presents more than two hundred reproductions of the political cartoons of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, written during World War II for the daily newspaper, "PM," between 1941 and 1942, and that comment on isolationism, racism, and anti-Semitism. Primary source material.
The ungentlemanly art; a history of American political cartoons (Print Format) by Stephen. Hess, Milton Kaplan
Call Number: E183 .H47 1968
Publication Date: 1968
This account of the American political cartoon from 1747 to the work of contemporary cartoonists such as Mauldin and Herblock chronicles the careers of the famous figures and the political situations which provided the cartoonists with their material. It also offers a picture of the mass media (broadsides, newspapers and magazines) through which the cartoonists reached their audiences.
Drawn to Extremes (Print Format) by Chris Lamb
Call Number: E183 .L36 2004
ISBN: 023113066X
Publication Date: 2004-12-29
"This book demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom. Chris Lamb examines the reasons for the declining state of the art and the implications for all of us.

Lusitania- "Well, what are you going to do about it?"

*W.A. Rogers, 1915?, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010717742/

Summary:"On May seventh, one of the little lost children of the Lusitania" on painting. "Lusitania conversation at a deadlock, Germany refuses to disavow, etc., etc. von Bernstorff" on paper.

PO344: The Presidential Election Through Humor: Political Cartoons

Young America Rising

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Lusitania- "Well, what are you going to do about it?"

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