“The Flight of Abraham” (Lincoln), March 9th, 1861
Continuing our series of American Civil War cartoons, we present — on the 150th anniversary of its first publication — The Flight of Abraham, by cartoonist John McLenan. Appearing on the rear outside page of the March 9th, 1861 issue of Harper’s Weekly, this cartoon parodies how President-Elect Abraham Lincoln (on February 21-23, 1861) snuck into Washington, D.C., [...]
A Congressional Prayer
Today, the 112th Congress begins its session. I thought it appropriate we look back towards the Congress most resembling the temperament of our current incoming members — the 36th Congress, which ushered in the American Civil War. (Double-appropriate, as 2011 is also the start of five years’ worth of 150th anniversaries of Civil War dates of interest. I anticipate we will be posting [...]
When Women Get the Vote
Florence Claxton’s 1870s comic book Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights, which we presented the past four Mondays, was by far the exception to the kinds of cartoons on the subject, drawn, edited and published mostly by men, which were the norm. (Even Leslie Publications, run eventually by Frank Leslie’s widow, knew where its readership stood, [...]
