William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so ...

Amid these preservation efforts, the White House had to contend with a southern magnolia tree planted by former President Andrew Jackson. The tree came from Jackson’s home in Tennessee.

It is a description of Andrew Jackson’s first 40 days on ... of everybody except the postmaster general. A popular cartoon showed Jackson sitting in a chair with the walls collapsed around ...

The portrait of Andrew Jackson has returned ... man who founded what is now the world's oldest political party. There are certain resemblances. Jackson's demeanor, like Trump's, appalled his ...

From election rallies to news articles, US elections see the Democratic and Republican parties often represented through the symbols of donkeys and elephants, respectively. But why exactly is that?

The Democratic Party’s association with the donkey dates back to Andrew Jackson’s 1828 presidential campaign ... and loyalty. Beyond his political cartoons, Thomas Nast left an indelible mark on ...

The same 19th-century political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, is credited with popularizing both symbols, though he didn’t create either. President Andrew Jackson, our nation’s seventh president ...

During Andrew Jackson’s 1828 presidential campaign, his political opponents labeled him ... a stubborn ass or struggling to control one. The cartoon, titled “The Third Term Panic,” showed ...

Did political cartoons contribute to American nation-building? This exhibition at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania shows how. Visitors inspect cartoons in "Cartoons as Political Speech" at the ...

The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Montreal who had moved to Los Angeles, Philip was a student at Manual Arts High School, where he befriended a young Jackson Pollock and joined a youth ...

A collection of 1 million political cartoons is headed to the UCLA Library, hailing from nearly 60 countries in 30 languages, and spanning more than 330 years. Why now: The $4.2-million collection ...