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Showing posts with label Ulysses Grant. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Ulysses Grant. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

How negative can a campaign get? Thomas Nast's attacks on Horace Greeley, 1872

Horace Greeley, pictured by Nast as an out-of-touch nitwit in oversized coat and hat, oblivious to the sea of dead Union solidiers at not...

Monday, June 6, 2011

WOUNDED KNEE, part I: The closing frontier.

Lakota Lake, Black Hills, South Dakota. Click here for other parts of this series: -- WOUNDED KNEE: Sacred ground for American Sioux ...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Portraits: President Grant's inaugural ball, March 1869

I love the way that old 1800s tabloids like Harper’s Weekly , Leslie’s Illustrated, and the others, long before photographs could be copied...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Thomas Nast on Wall Street

This week, in honor of the Dow Jones Average hitting its lowest point in twelve years, I though it fitting to pull out Thomas Nast's fa...

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