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| political cartoons of the gilded age: Thomas Nast Fiona Deans Halloran, 2013-01-01 Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly magazine. In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran interprets his work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates the lasting legacy of Nast's work on American political culture-- |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Gilded Age Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, 1904 |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: WHITE MAN'S BURDEN Rudyard Kipling, 2020-11-05 This book re-presents the poetry of Rudyard Kipling in the form of bold slogans, the better for us to reappraise the meaning and import of his words and his art. Each line or phrase is thrust at the reader in a manner that may be inspirational or controversial... it is for the modern consumer of this recontextualization to decide. They are words to provoke: to action. To inspire. To recite. To revile. To reconcile or reconsider the legacy and benefits of colonialism. Compiled and presented by sloganist Dick Robinson, three poems are included, complete and uncut: 'White Man's Burden', 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy' and 'If'. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Robinson Crusoe's Money, Or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community David Ames Wells, 1876 |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Populist Cartoons Worth Robert Miller, 2011 This extensive and rich treasure trove of cartoons from Populist newspapers of the 1890s tells the story of one of the most successful third-party movements in American history. The arguments made in these illustrations resonated with late nineteenth-century readers, as evidenced by the continued use of the term Populist. This selection of cartoons and Worth Robert Miller's commentary give the common man's perspective on the politics of corporate greed in terms still relevant today. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Populism and Corruption Jonathan Mendilow, Éric Phélippeau, 2021-06-25 This timely book offers an in-depth analysis of the intersection between populism and corruption, addressing phenomena that have been, so far, largely treated separately. Bringing together two dynamic and well-established fields of study, it proposes a theoretical framework for the study of populism and corruption in order to update our understanding of specific forms of each in a variety of socio-political settings. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Electoral Capitalism Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, 2020-08-14 Vast fortunes grew out of the party system during the Gilded Age. In New York, party leaders experimented with novel ways to accumulate capital for political competition and personal business. Partisans established banks. They drove a speculative frenzy in finance, real estate, and railroads. And they built empires that stretched from mining to steamboats, and from liquor distilleries to newspapers. Control over political property—party organizations, public charters, taxpayer subsidies, and political offices—served to form governing coalitions, and to mobilize voting blocs. In Electoral Capitalism, Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer reappraises the controversy over wealth inequality, and why this period was so combustible. As ranks of the dispossessed swelled, an outpouring of claims transformed the old spoils system into relief for the politically connected poor. A vibrant but scorned culture of petty officeholding thus emerged. By the turn of the century, an upsurge of grassroots protest sought to dislodge political bosses from their apex by severing the link between party and capital. Examining New York, and its outsized role in national affairs, Broxmeyer demonstrates that electoral capitalism was a category of entrepreneurship in which the capture of public office and the accumulation of wealth were mutually reinforcing. The book uncovers hidden economic ties that wove together presidents, senators, and mayors with business allies, spoilsmen, and voters. Today, great political fortunes have dramatically returned. As current public debates invite parallels with the Gilded Age, Broxmeyer offers historical and theoretical tools to make sense of how politics begets wealth. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Drawn & Quartered Stephen Hess, Sandy Northrop, 1996 This book belongs on the reference shelf of anyone interested in the interplay between cartoons, politics, and public opinion. It provides the reader a historic framework in which to understand the cartoons' meaning and significance. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Angels in the Machinery Rebecca Edwards, 1997 Offering an analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early 20th century, the author argues that women in the US participated actively and transformed forever the ideology of American party politics before they got the right to vote. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Suffrage Songs and Verses Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 2022-07-19 Suffrage Songs and Verses, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a collection of 25 poems which advocates the suffragette movement and women’s rights. Published in 1911, the poetry anthology includes both famous and lesser-known works such as ‘Women of To-day’, ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ and ‘The Socialist and the Suffragist’, and is a clear inspiration for modern feminist writers and pro-women’s rights campaigners. Now seen as a classic selection of American female poetry and inspirational literature, this forward-thinking anthology examines the role of women in a pre-WW1 patriarchal society – and was one of many works to inspire the 2015 British historical drama film ‘Suffragette’ which starred Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne‐Marie Duff. A selection of Perkins’ work featured in this book were originally published in the book ‘In this our World’ in 1898. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s best known work was her autobiographical-inspired short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, written about her experience of severe postnatal depression, which was made into a 2011 gothic thriller film by Logan Thomas. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known as Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was born on 3rd July 1860 in Connecticut, USA. Her early family life was troubled, with her father abandoning his wife and family; a move which strongly influenced her feminist political leanings and advocator of women’s rights. After jobs as a tutor and painter, Perkins – a self-declared humanist and ‘tom boy’ – began to work as a writer of short stories, novels, non-fiction pieces and poetry. Her best-known work is her semi-autobiographical short story, inspired by her post-natal depression, entitled ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ which was published in 1892 and made into a film in 2011. A member of the American National Women's Hall of Fame, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a strong believer that the domestic environment oppressed women through the patriarchal beliefs upheld by society. A believer in euthanasia, she was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in January 1932 and chose to take her own life in August 1935, writing in her suicide note that she chose chloroform over cancer. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Representing Congress Clifford K. Berryman, James Zimmerhoff, 2017-08-30 INTRODUCTIONRepresenting Congress presents a selection of politicalcartoons by Clifford K. Berryman to engage studentsin a discussion of what Congress is, how it works,and what it does. It features the masterful work of one ofAmerica's preeminent political cartoonists and showcases hisability to use portraits, representative symbols and figures,and iconic personifications to convey thought-provokinginsights into the institutions and issues of civic life. The Houseof Representatives and Senate take center stage as nationalelected officials work to realize the ideals of the Founders.This eBook is designed to teach students to analyze history as conveyed in visual media.The cartoons offer comments about various moments in history, and they challenge thereader to evaluate their perspective and objectivity. Viewed outside their original journalisticcontext, the cartoons engage and amuse as comic art, but they can also puzzlea reader with references to little-remembered events and people. This eBook providescontextual information on each cartoon to help dispel the historical mysteries.Berryman's cartoons were originally published as illustrations for the front page of theWashington Post and the Washington Evening Star at various dates spanning the years from 1896to 1949. Thirty-nine cartoons selected from the more than 2,400 original Berryman drawingspreserved at the Center for Legislative Archives convey thumbnail sketches of Congress inaction to reveal some of the enduring features of our national representative government.For more than 50 years, Berryman's cartoons engaged readers of Washington's newspapers,illustrating everyday political events as they related to larger issues of civic life.These cartoons promise to engage students in similar ways today. The cartoons intrigueand inform, puzzle and inspire. Like Congress itself, Berryman's cartoons seem familiarat first glance. Closer study reveals nuances and design features that invite in-depthanalysis and discussion. Using these cartoons, students engage in fun and substantivechallenges to unlock each cartoons' meaning and better understand Congress. As theydo so, students will develop the critical thinking skills so important to academic successand the future health and longevity of our democratic republic.2 | R E P R E S E N T I N G C O N G R E S SHOW THIS eBOOK IS ORGANIZEDThis eBook presents 39 cartoons by Clifford K. Berryman,organized in six chapters that illustrate how Congress works.Each page features one cartoon accompanied by links toadditional information and questions.TEACHING WITH THIS eBOOKRepresenting Congress is designed to teach students aboutCongress-its history, procedures, and constitutional roles-through the analysis of political cartoons.Students will study these cartoons in three steps:* Analyze each cartoon using the NARA Cartoon Analysis Worksheet* Analyze several cartoons to discuss how art illustrates civic life using Worksheet 2* Analyze each cartoon in its historic context using Worksheet 3 (optional)Directions:1. Divide the class into small groups, and assign each group to study one or more cartoonsin the chapter Congress and the Constitution.2. Instruct each group to complete Worksheet 1: Analyzing Cartoons. Direct each groupto share their analysis with the whole-class.3. Instruct each group to complete Worksheet 2: Discussing Cartoons. Students shouldapply the questions to all of the cartoons in the chapter. Direct each group to sharetheir analysis in a whole class discussion of the chapter.4. Repeat the above steps with each succeeding chapter.5. Direct each group to share what they have learned in the preceding activities in awhole-class discussion of Congress and the Constitution.6. Optional Activity: Assign each group to read the Historical Context Informationstatement for their cartoon. The students should then use the Historical Context |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Them Damned Pictures Roger A. Fischer, 1996 In late nineteenth-century America, political cartoonists Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, Bernhard Gillam and Grant Hamilton enjoyed a stature as political powerbrokers barely imaginable in today's world of instant information and electronic reality. Their drawings in Harper's Weekly, the dime humor magazines Puck and the Judge, and elsewhere were often in their own right major political events. In a world of bare-knuckles partisan journalism, such power often corrupted, and creative genius was rarely restrained by ethics. Interpretations gave way to sheer invention, transforming public servants into ogres more by physiognomy than by fact. Blacks, Indians, the Irish, Jews, Mormons, and Roman Catholics were reduced to a few stereotypical characteristics that would make a modern-day bigot blush. In this pungent climate, and with well over 100 cartoons as living proof, Roger Fischer - in a series of lively episodes - weaves the cartoon genre in to the larger fabric of politics and thought the Guilded Age, and beyond. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Republic for which it Stands Richard White, 2017 The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction--its conflicts, rapid and disorienting change, hopes and fears--formed the template of American modernity. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Thomas Nast Cartoons [Classic Anthology] Thomas Nast, 2010-03-14 Thomas Nast Cartoons [Classic Anthology] is an illustrated collection of American caricaturist and satirist Thomas Nast's cartoons and illustrations from newspapers and magazines. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 Esther Crain, 2016-09-27 The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution. Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class. The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row. Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her Electric Light ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City. -- Sam Roberts, The New York Times Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world. -- Entertainment Weekly Must List What better way to revisit this rich period . . ? -- Library Journal |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Picturing Political Power Allison K. Lange, 2021-09-27 For as long as American women have battled for equitable political representation, those battles have been defined by images--whether drawn, etched, photographed, or filmed. Some of these have been flattering, many of them have been condescending, and some have been scabrous. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural tropes about the perceived nature of women's roles and abilities, and they have circulated both with and without conscious political objectives. Allison K. Lange takes a systematic look at American women's efforts to control the production and dissemination of images of them in the long battle for representation, from the mid-nineteenth-century onward-- |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: U.S. History Through Cartoons , 2014 Part of a series of posters showing political cartoons intended to help students better appreciate the spirit of the times and the central public concerns of these reform years from the point of view of people who lived during them. This poster shows six cartoons highlighting major issues of the years when America was transformed into a highly urbanized industrial nation. Mark Twain coined the phrase The Gilded Age, which suggests both the great wealth and the tawdry corruption of the era. Huge corporations and powerful trusts gained an increasing dominance in American social and political life. Millions of immigrants flooded into the country. Farmers and laborers gave political voice to their fears and their dreams. It was a time when modern America in all its complexity and diversity began to take shape. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: How the Other Half Lives Jacob Riis, 2011 |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: A Greater Ireland Ely M. Janis, 2015 A Greater Ireland examines the Irish National Land League in the United States and its impact on Irish-American history. It also demonstrates the vital role that Irish-American women played in shaping Irish-American nationalism. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Reconstruction and Empire David Prior, 2022-02-15 This volume examines the historical connections between the United States’ Reconstruction and the country’s emergence as a geopolitical power a few decades later. It shows how the processes at work during the postbellum decade variously foreshadowed, inhibited, and conditioned the development of the United States as an overseas empire and regional hegemon. In doing so, it links the diverse topics of abolition, diplomacy, Jim Crow, humanitarianism, and imperialism. In 1935, the great African American intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois argued in his Black Reconstruction in America that these two historical moments were intimately related. In particular, Du Bois averred that the nation’s betrayal of the South’s fledgling interracial democracy in the 1870s put reactionaries in charge of a country on the verge of global power, with world-historical implications. Working with the same chronological and geographical parameters, the contributors here take up targeted case studies, tracing the biographical, ideological, and thematic linkages that stretch across the postbellum and imperial moments. With an Introduction, eleven chapters, and an Afterword, this volume offers multiple perspectives based on original primary source research. The resulting composite picture points to a host of countervailing continuities and changes. The contributors examine topics as diverse as diplomatic relations with Spain, the changing views of radical abolitionists, African American missionaries in the Caribbean, and the ambiguities of turn-of-the century political cartoons. Collectively, the volume unsettles familiar assumptions about how we should understand the late nineteenth-century United States, conventionally framed as the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It also advances transnational approaches to understanding America’s Reconstruction and the search for the ideological currents shaping American power abroad. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Alexander Von Humboldt and the United States Eleanor Jones Harvey, 2020-04-14 The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020–January 3, 2021 |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Age of Acrimony Jon Grinspan, 2021-04-27 A penetrating, character-filled history “in the manner of David McCullough” (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. Democracy was broken. Or that was what many Americans believed in the decades after the Civil War. Shaken by economic and technological disruption, they sought safety in aggressive, tribal partisanship. The results were the loudest, closest, most violent elections in U.S. history, driven by vibrant campaigns that drew our highest-ever voter turnouts. At the century's end, reformers finally restrained this wild system, trading away participation for civility in the process. They built a calmer, cleaner democracy, but also a more distant one. Americans' voting rates crashed and never fully recovered. This is the origin story of the “normal” politics of the 20th century. Only by exploring where that civility and restraint came from can we understand what is happening to our democracy today. The Age of Acrimony charts the rise and fall of 19th-century America's unruly politics through the lives of a remarkable father-daughter dynasty. The radical congressman William “Pig Iron” Kelley and his fiery, Progressive daughter Florence Kelley led lives packed with drama, intimately tied to their nation's politics. Through their friendships and feuds, campaigns and crusades, Will and Florie trace the narrative of a democracy in crisis. In telling the tale of what it cost to cool our republic, historian Jon Grinspan reveals our divisive political system's enduring capacity to reinvent itself. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Topsy Michael Daly, 2013-07-02 The true story of a nineteenth-century elephant caught between warring circuses and battling scientists, from the author of The Book of Mychal. In 1903, on Coney Island, an elephant named Topsy was electrocuted. Many historical forces conspired to bring her, Thomas Edison, and those 6,600 volts of alternating current together that day. Tracing them all in Topsy, journalist Michael Daly weaves together a fascinating popular history, the first book to tell this astonishing tale. At the turn of the century, circuses in America were at their apex with P. T. Barnum and Adam Forepaugh competing in a War of the Elephants. Their quest for younger, bigger, or more “sacred” pachyderms brought Topsy to America. Fraudulently billed as the first native-born elephant, Topsy was immediately caught between the disputing circuses as well as the War of the Currents, in which Edison and George Westinghouse (and Nikola Tesla) battled over the superiority of alternating versus direct current. Rich in period Americana, and full of circus tidbits and larger than life characters, Topsy is a touching and entertaining read. “A rollicking pachydermal tale . . . A summer escape.” —The New York Times “A nineteenth-century reality show that boggles the mind as the pages fly by with events that have you laughing out loud one moment and gasping in disbelief the next.” —Tom Brokaw “I’ve always respected Michael Daly as a great New York writer . . . He humanizes and speaks for those animals who cannot speak. He touches the hearts of those of us who are not animal activists.” —James McBride “A skillfully told and admirably researched reminder of a time not as long ago as we’d like to think.” —The Wall Street Journal |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Reading the Market Peter Knight, 2016-09 Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Art of Controversy Victor S Navasky, 2013-04-09 A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, and Ralph Steadman. He recounts how cartoonists and caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated, and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised to affect our minds and our hearts. Drawing on his own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as both art and polemic over the centuries. We see afresh images most celebrated for their artistic merit (Picasso's Guernica, Goya's Duendecitos), images that provoked outrage (the 2008 Barry Blitt New Yorker cover, which depicted the Obamas as a Muslim and a Black Power militant fist-bumping in the Oval Office), and those that have dictated public discourse (Herblock’s defining portraits of McCarthyism, the Nazi periodical Der Stürmer’s anti-Semitic caricatures). Navasky ties together these and other superlative genre examples to reveal how political cartoons have been not only capturing the zeitgeist throughout history but shaping it as well—and how the most powerful cartoons retain the ability to shock, gall, and inspire long after their creation. Here Victor S. Navasky brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most enduringly vital forms of artistic expression. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Seeking a Voice David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, Roy Morris (Jr.), Roy Morris, 2009 This volume chronicles the media's role in reshaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. The work is divided into four parts: Part I, Race Reporting, details the various ways in which America's racial minorities were portrayed; Part II, Fires of Discontent, looks at the moral and religious opposition to slavery by the abolitionist movement and demonstrates how that opposition was echoed by African Americans themselves; Part III, The Cult of True Womanhood, examines the often disparate ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life; and Part IV, Transcending the Boundaries, traces the lives of pioneering women journalists who sought to alter and expand their gender's participation in American life, showing how the changing role of women led to various journalistic attempts to depict and define women through sensationalistic news coverage of female crime stories. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Boss Tweed Kenneth D. Ackerman, 2005-01-01 A lively account of the life of a New York legend traces the rise of Boss Tweed, the corrupt party boss who controlled New York politics through a combination of corruption, bribery, and coercion until his own over-reaching destroyed him. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Lines of Contention J. G. Lewin, P.J. Huff, 2007-11-13 The political turmoil of the Civil War Era has been analyzed many times, but one area of this period's history is often overlooked: a large body of humorous, clever, and scathing editorial cartoons from publications such as Harper's Weekly, Vanity Fair, Punch, and Leslie's Illustrated. In Lines of Contention, the best of these cartoons has finally been collected into one place to illuminate the social, political, and cultural climate of Civil War—Era America. The cartoons have been pulled from both sides of the fence and provide insight into the incidents and opinions surrounding the war as well as the mind-sets and actions of all the major figures. Lines of Contention presents a unique history of the Civil War and its participants. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: An Elusive Unity James J. Connolly, 2010 Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era. The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions. But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Gilded Age Alan Axelrod, 2017 The Gilded Age--the name Mark Twain coined to refer to the period of rapid economic growth in America between the 1870s and 1900--is in the air again! Noted historian Alan Axelrod explores this intense era in all its dimensions, looking at how the overture of the American Century presaged our own time. Photographs, political cartoons, engravings, and other ephemera help bring this fascinating period into focus. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Oliphant's Anthem Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, 1998-03-15 Ironic, isn't it? For more than a quarter century, Pat Oliphant has skewered the denizens of Congress with his bitingly sharp editorial cartoons. Now, in an exhibit and this companion volume, Oliphant is honored in the very repository of that illustrious body: The Library of Congress.Oliphant is, after all, the most important political cartoonist of the 20th century. His trademark wit -- shared with the adoring fans who read almost 350 daily and Sunday newspapers that carry his work -- has impaled presidents, dogged members of Congress, and critiqued a whole host of issues. From Vietnam to Bosnia, from Lyndon Johnson to Bill Clinton, Pat Oliphant has applied his considerable talent to the workings of the world.Oliphant's Anthem will catalog the 60 drawings, sculptures, and various art media that will be exhibited as a special tribute to Pat Oliphant's art in March 1998 at the Library of Congress. Interviews with the artist throughout the book will highlight his thoughts, concerns, and considerations as he has created this impressive body of work. Printed on glossy enamel stock, the black and white book will include an eight-page color signature. It is certain to be a collectible edition for Oliphant fans everywhere. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Banking Panics of the Gilded Age Elmus Wicker, 2000-09-04 This study of post-Civil War banking panics has constructed estimates of bank closures and their incidence in five separate banking disturbances. The book reconstructs the course of banking panics in the interior, where suspension of cash payment was the primary effect on the average person. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Teaching Economics William E. Becker, Suzanne R. Becker, Michael W. Watts, 2006-01-25 Teaching Economics is an invaluable and practical tool for teachers of economics, administrators responsible for undergraduate instruction and graduate students who are just beginning to teach. Each chapter includes specific teaching tips for classroom implementation and summary lists of do's and don'ts for instructors who are thinking of moving beyond the lecture method of traditional chalk and talk.--BOOK JACKET. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The American Yawp Joseph L. Locke, Ben Wright, 2019-01-22 I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.—Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a starting point for asking their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality Edward O'Donnell, 2015-06-09 America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Reading Like a Historian Sam Wineburg, Daisy Martin, Chauncey Monte-Sano, 2015-04-26 This practical resource shows you how to apply Sam Wineburgs highly acclaimed approach to teaching, Reading Like a Historian, in your middle and high school classroom to increase academic literacy and spark students curiosity. Chapters cover key moments in American history, beginning with exploration and colonization and ending with the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Curse of Bigness Tim Wu, 2018 From the man who coined the term net neutrality and who has made significant contributions to our understanding of antitrust policy and wireless communications, comes a call for tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to corporate bigness. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: John White Alexander Mary Anne Goley, 2018-02-28 At the time of his death, the Pittsburgh-born John White Alexander (1856-1915) was an internationally recognized portrait painter, on a part with his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase. However the works that have earned him even greater acclaim than his portraits are his figure paintings of femmes fatales, usually richly attired in flowing dresses and striking elaborate poses. Alexander had been much in demand as a portraitist, both of men and children as well as women, but his real talent, which became evident relatively late in his career, lay in his ability to capture the essence of the female form. This talent blossomed after he encountered Juliette Very, the Parisian model who became his muse. Inspired by Juliette, his paintings are imbued with sentiment expressed through movement and gesture, and it was the portrayal of his models in this way that brought him fame. He also borrowed from the post-impressionist group of painters, the Nabis' use of bold abstract forms and flowing lines, and from James McNeil Whistler's muted coloration, to create his own unique style. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: The Dynamiters Niall Whelehan, 2012 In the 1880s a New York-based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic public buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence. Employing a transnational approach, the book reveals connections and parallels between the 'dynamiters' and other revolutionary groups active at the time and demonstrates how they interacted with currents in revolution, war and politics across Europe, the United States and the British Empire. Reconstructing the life stories of individual dynamiters and their conceptual and ethical views on violence, it offers an innovative picture of the dynamics of revolutionary organizations as well as the political, social and cultural factors which move people to support or condemn acts of political violence. |
| political cartoons of the gilded age: Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era Leon Fink, 2001 Designed for courses in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the rise of industrial America, and late 19th and early 20th century U.S. history. Follows the highly successful Major Problems format, allowing students to evaluate primary sources, test interpretations and draw their own conclusions. |
Gilded Age – Political Cartoon Analysis - West Linn-Wilsonville ...
The Gilded Age (c.1870 to 1900) was sandwiched between the Civil War and the Progressive Era, two periods in which politics “really mattered.” In contrast, the interv ening decades seem to …
Political Cartoons Of The Gilded Age (2024)
cartoons from the gilded age In the decade of the 1890s Oregon cartoonist Homer Davenport wielded his pen to spray a steady stream of caustic caricatures onto the notables and …
Learning about the Gilded Age (1869-1896) through Political …
The Gilded Age (1869-1896), as Mark Twain dubbed this historical period, was marked by a veneer of prosperity, but also deep-seated political, social, and economic problems including …
Gilded Age Political Cartoons - APUSH
Gilded Age Political Cartoons 1. What is the main idea of this cartoon? 2. What was the first thing you noticed in this cartoon? 3. Who is depicted in this cartoon? 4. Develop two questions …
“To what extent did the political cartoons of the Gilded Age
The following analyses of cartoons from an article entitled “The Corrupting of New York City” by Peter Baida and those found in The Americans, Chapter 15, reveal key issues at stake during …
Political Cartoon Analysis - Rochester City School District
Political Cartoon Analysis: The Gilded Age 1. List 8 objects/figures that you see in the cartoon. 2. What is the title of the cartoon? 3. Which objects do you think are symbols? 4. Where does …
Cartoons for analysis - individualsandsocieties
Cartoons for analysis “Boss Tweed as Moneybag” (Doc A): one of Thomas Nast’s searing renderings of the most famous of all corrupt politicians. “The Tammany Tiger” (Doc B): mauls …
Politics as Social History: Political Cartoons in the Gilded Age
Gilded-Age cartoons denigrating African Americans, American Indi ans, or Jews, in order to consider the racial, ethnic, class, and religious sources of prejudice.
Political Cartoons From The Gilded Age (book)
The political cartoons of the Gilded Age are more than just historical artifacts; they are powerful visual narratives that offer a crucial window into the complexities and contradictions of this …
CHAPTER 7 GUIDED READING Politics in the Gilded Age
On the back of this paper, define political machine and describe how it worked. The corruption and graft exhibited by numerous politicians during the Gilded Age did not go unnoticed by the …
Thomas Nast: Cartoonist of the Gilded Age - J387: Media History
Nast’s campaign against New York City’s political boss William Magear Tweed is legendary. He devised the Tam-many tiger; popularized the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party …
Holding the Tiger: Mugwump Cartoonists and Tammany Hall in …
After the Civil War, at the outset of the Gilded Age, the best and most stirring political cartoons were the etchings of Harper's Weekly artist, Bavarian-born Thomas Nast.3 In July 1871, the …
The Image of the Octopus, six drawings, 1882-1909
In January 1899, after years of orchestrated delay in beginning the New York City subway, the issue came to a head. On one side were Tammany Hall and the businessmen who …
SKILLBUILDER PRACTICE Interpreting Political Cartoons
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Gilded Age Immigration
Gilded Age Immigration Political Cartoons . Cartoon 1 1. Who is parting the waters? What biblical figure does he represent? 2. Who do the people walking between the waves represent? 3. …
Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck
Political cartoons are for the most part composed of two elements: caricature, which parodies the individual, and allusion, which creates the situation or context into which the individual is placed.
Sample Lesson – Handout 4 Stereotype and Caricature
The Political Cartoon: An Argument Not a Slogan The Cartoon: This cartoon is titled “The Protectors of Our Industries.” It is about the conflict between labor and capital in the late …
Teaching America's GAPE (Or Any Other Period) with Political …
some depth and breadth of political coverage of the period or topic for which you will use political cartoons. In my GAPE courses, for example, I have used Robert Cherey's American Politics in …
Literacy Tests: The Cure for the Common Hordes - JSTOR
political cartoons as primary sources that undergraduate and gradu ate instructors will find adaptable to a variety of courses on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
The Trust Giants’ Grasp: Corporate Power and Political Influence …
7 Sep 2024 · During the Gilded Age, political cartoons became a powerful medium for social and political critique. Artists like Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, and Homer Davenport used visual …
Gilded Age – Political Cartoon Analysis - West Linn-Wilsonville ...
The Gilded Age (c.1870 to 1900) was sandwiched between the Civil War and the Progressive Era, two periods in which politics “really mattered.” In contrast, the interv ening decades seem to offer only lessons in disillusionment and cynicism.
Political Cartoons Of The Gilded Age (2024)
cartoons from the gilded age In the decade of the 1890s Oregon cartoonist Homer Davenport wielded his pen to spray a steady stream of caustic caricatures onto the notables and notorious of the global political scene The comic reprints from
Learning about the Gilded Age (1869-1896) through Political Cartoons
The Gilded Age (1869-1896), as Mark Twain dubbed this historical period, was marked by a veneer of prosperity, but also deep-seated political, social, and economic problems including racism and corruption. It was during this same period that editorial cartoons reached a high-level of sophistication.
Gilded Age Political Cartoons - APUSH
Gilded Age Political Cartoons 1. What is the main idea of this cartoon? 2. What was the first thing you noticed in this cartoon? 3. Who is depicted in this cartoon? 4. Develop two questions about this cartoon. 5. How could this cartoon be used as evidence in an essay concerning corruption in the Grant Administration? 6.
“To what extent did the political cartoons of the Gilded Age
The following analyses of cartoons from an article entitled “The Corrupting of New York City” by Peter Baida and those found in The Americans, Chapter 15, reveal key issues at stake during this era.
Political Cartoon Analysis - Rochester City School District
Political Cartoon Analysis: The Gilded Age 1. List 8 objects/figures that you see in the cartoon. 2. What is the title of the cartoon? 3. Which objects do you think are symbols? 4. Where does this scene take place? 5. Who do the men in the back of the room represent? 7.
Cartoons for analysis - individualsandsocieties
Cartoons for analysis “Boss Tweed as Moneybag” (Doc A): one of Thomas Nast’s searing renderings of the most famous of all corrupt politicians. “The Tammany Tiger” (Doc B): mauls the principles of the Republic, while Tweed as Caesar watches the arena unmoved. In fact, by the time Thomas Nast’s cartoon appeared in 1871, Tweed’s
Politics as Social History: Political Cartoons in the Gilded Age
Gilded-Age cartoons denigrating African Americans, American Indi ans, or Jews, in order to consider the racial, ethnic, class, and religious sources of prejudice.
Political Cartoons From The Gilded Age (book)
The political cartoons of the Gilded Age are more than just historical artifacts; they are powerful visual narratives that offer a crucial window into the complexities and contradictions of this transformative period in American history.
CHAPTER 7 GUIDED READING Politics in the Gilded Age
On the back of this paper, define political machine and describe how it worked. The corruption and graft exhibited by numerous politicians during the Gilded Age did not go unnoticed by the nation’s political cartoonists. Examine the polit-ical cartoon below and then answer the questions that follow. (See Skillbuilder Handbook, p. R24.) 1.
Thomas Nast: Cartoonist of the Gilded Age - J387: Media History
Nast’s campaign against New York City’s political boss William Magear Tweed is legendary. He devised the Tam-many tiger; popularized the donkey as the symbol for the Democratic Party and elephant, for the Republi-can Party; and created the “modern” image of Santa Claus.
Holding the Tiger: Mugwump Cartoonists and Tammany Hall in Gilded Age …
After the Civil War, at the outset of the Gilded Age, the best and most stirring political cartoons were the etchings of Harper's Weekly artist, Bavarian-born Thomas Nast.3 In July 1871, the "Father of American Political Cartooning" intensified his sensational series on corruption in New York City's most powerful political faction, Tammany Hall.
The Image of the Octopus, six drawings, 1882-1909
In January 1899, after years of orchestrated delay in beginning the New York City subway, the issue came to a head. On one side were Tammany Hall and the businessmen who monopolized the city’s street railways and who wanted no competition from a subway. On the other side was the public demanding improved and less crowded urban transit.
SKILLBUILDER PRACTICE Interpreting Political Cartoons
SKILLBUILDER PRACTICE Interpreting Political Cartoons The corruption and graft exhibited by numerous politicians during the Gilded Age did not go unnoticed by the nation’s political cartoonists. Examine the polit-ical cartoon below and then answer the questions that follow. (See Skillbuilder Handbook, p. R24.) 1. What is the subject of the ...
Gilded Age Immigration
Gilded Age Immigration Political Cartoons . Cartoon 1 1. Who is parting the waters? What biblical figure does he represent? 2. Who do the people walking between the waves represent? 3. What is the artist’s attitude towards immigrants? Explain. Cartoon 2 1. How is Uncle Sam portrayed? 2. What does Uncle Sam’s list say?
Uniting Mugwumps and the Masses: Puck
Political cartoons are for the most part composed of two elements: caricature, which parodies the individual, and allusion, which creates the situation or context into which the individual is placed.
Sample Lesson – Handout 4 Stereotype and Caricature
The Political Cartoon: An Argument Not a Slogan The Cartoon: This cartoon is titled “The Protectors of Our Industries.” It is about the conflict between labor and capital in the late 1800s. It is by artist Bernhard Gillam, and it appeared in Puck on February 7, 1883. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3108
Teaching America's GAPE (Or Any Other Period) with Political Cartoons ...
some depth and breadth of political coverage of the period or topic for which you will use political cartoons. In my GAPE courses, for example, I have used Robert Cherey's American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900, (Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1997), and Lewis Gould, America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914, (New York: Longman, 2001 ...
Literacy Tests: The Cure for the Common Hordes - JSTOR
political cartoons as primary sources that undergraduate and gradu ate instructors will find adaptable to a variety of courses on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
The Trust Giants’ Grasp: Corporate Power and Political Influence …
7 Sep 2024 · During the Gilded Age, political cartoons became a powerful medium for social and political critique. Artists like Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, and Homer Davenport used visual satire to expose...
