Signe wilkinson biography of abraham lincoln
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Political Cartoon: Trump in Abraham Lincoln’s chair
Daily takes from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson.
I felt sorry for Donald Trump sitting han själv up on a super tall stool at Abraham Lincoln’s feet during his May 3 town entré. No one would look presidential in comparison, but particularly not a guy who, had he been Commander in Chief of the Union troops during the Civil War,likely would have said, “Go North” one minute, “Go South” the next, and “Let’s go home and leave them to keep their slaves — we have to get our economy back” the minute after.
Editorial cartoons from this week include:
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Lincoln, Washington, off with their names: San Francisco makes a mockery of history
In October 1994, Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves to condemn a proposed set of national history standards. The standards added new voices — especially minorities and women — and urged teachers and students to interpret history in light of them.
But that was too much for Limbaugh, who questioned the premise of historical interpretation itself. “History is real simple,” the right-wing talk-show host explained. “You know what history is? It’s what happened.” The real problem lay with blame-America-first people on the left, Limbaugh added, who twisted the past to match their politics. Teachers should simply say what occurred, and leave it at that.
My students have learned to call that the Just-the-Facts Fallacy, a longstanding favorite of American conservatives. If we just read the Declaration of Independence, we’ll know that America is a land of freedom. If we read the Constitution, we’ll know that
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Cartoons and Cartoonists
American cartooning began in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), who introduced cartoons to North America, used images to galvanize viewers to action on the issues of their day. As the political, economic, and cultural capital of the early United States, Philadelphia became a center for producing political cartoons and humorous caricatures. Although New York eventually supplanted Philadelphia as the nation’s primary publishing center, Philadelphia cartoonists and their work continued to thrive and influence the art of cartooning, politics, and popular culture of readers throughout the nation.
Many historians consider “Join, or Die,” the iconic image of the segmented snake representing the American colonies, published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in May 1754, to be the first political cartoon published in America; it was certainly the first cartoon published in an American newspaper. Some consider “Non Votis,” a lesser-known illustration of a hapl