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

The answer lies in the work of one of America’s first great political cartoonists, Thomas Nast, whose biting satire and vivid ...

Nast's groundbreaking cartoons, such as his iconic depiction of a black family facing a Klansman, used symbols like the ...

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

German-born American political cartoonist Thomas Nast popularised the illustrations of donkeys and elephants, representing ...

Election Day is almost here. Even for adults, the process can be confusing. To help your kids understand, we broke it down in simple terms.

This shorthaired cat lives in northeast Seattle where he hunts gnats at dusk ... and is as popular as the Democratic ...

Thousands of Iranians rallied Sunday by the former U.S. embassy in Tehran to mark the 1979 hostage crisis, burning American ...

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

The BBC's Lucy Woodham explains why a blue donkey and a red elephant are symbols of the US political parties. Reeves says the government will raise £25bn from increasing employers' National Insurance ...

a proud supporter of the Party of Lincoln, drew the Herald as a donkey wrapped in a lion’s skin, frightening the other animals with wild stories of a Grant dictatorship. Among these animals are an ...

The reasons why in the United States the Democratic Party and the Democrats are represented bydonkey (and the color blue) ...