The Gilded Age President led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy ...

The entrance to the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters was set on fire and defaced with graffiti in an alleged arson attack Sunday morning, authorities and Republican officials said.

Have you ever wondered where America’s political parties got their donkey and elephant ... 1874 cartoon labeled “Third Term Panic,” Nast commented on Republican Ulysses Grant’s ...

At the time, and for seven cartoons afterward, it represented the Republican Vote, not the Republican Party. The Elephant’s actual emergence on October 29, 1874 — six days before the mid-term election ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time. They would arrive two weeks later. Scientists who later studied ...

In 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly. In 1916, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected and Republican ...

Similarly, the elephant often made it to his cartoons as a massive and formidable creature ... he reimagined the GOP (Grand Old Party or Republican Party) as a weak, panicky creature that was ...

The elephant was often depicted in Thomas Nast's cartoons as a massive and formidable creature representing the Republican Party, a kinder representation than the Democrats' donkey. There were ...

In the cartoon, Nast portrayed the Democratic donkey scaring other animals, including an elephant labeled “The Republican Vote.” This resonated with the public, and the elephant soon became widely ...

While the elephant had appeared in Civil War-era imagery as a symbol of bravery in combat, it was Nast’s 1874 cartoon “Third Term Panic” that firmly linked the creature with the Republican Party. In ...

Nast built on this in his cartoons, regularly using the donkey to represent Democrats, often poking fun at the party’s perceived stubbornness ... Among the terrified animals was a clumsy elephant ...

The elephant symbol for the Republican Party originated during ... Harper’s Weekly to showcase these symbols for each party in various cartoons. After that, others followed his lead and ...