The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of historical events and the work ...

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wears socks with the donkey, a symbol of the Democratic Party at the United ...

The donkey and elephant became political symbols in the United States through a combination of political satire and popular ...

The animal mascots that represent the Democrats and Republicans were created over a century ago with color-coding scheme a ...

The elephant and donkey were meant to be satirical depictions, popularised by an American political cartoonist.

The donkey became more popular in the 1870s when Thomas Nast made it a symbol of the Democratic Party in his Harper's Weekly ...

The most enduring images in American political life are those drawn from the natural world—rivers and springs reflect the ever-changing course of politics, monsters suggest the carefully apportioned ...

On Nov. 7, 1874, the first cartoon depicting the elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party was printed in Harper's Weekly.

Voting in the 19th century usually involved casting a printed paper ballot. State election laws typically specified the dimensions and thickness of the paper, and the size of type to be used. The rest ...