On this day in 1870, leading political cartoonist Thomas Nast’s drawing “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” appeared in Harper’s Weekly. The cartoon solidified the donkey as the symbol of ...

In his cartoon, the donkey, standing in for the Copperhead press, is kicking a dead lion, representing President Lincoln’s recently deceased press secretary (E.M. Stanton). With this simple but ...

In a cartoon published in Harper's Weekly magazine in 1870, Thomas Nast depicted a donkey kicking a dead lion, titled "A Live Donkey Kicking a Dead Lion!" In this cartoon, the donkey represented a ...

The cartoon depicts a donkey dressed in lion's clothing ... This 1870 image is called "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion," and is the first ever to represent the Democrats — rather than ...