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46: 254: 274: 296: 540:' 1876 presidential election. Later on Hayes remarked that Nast was "the most powerful, single-handed aid had". After the election, Nast's role in the magazine diminished considerably. Since the late 1860s, Nast and George W. Curtis had frequently differed on political matters and particularly on the role of cartoons in political discourse. Curtis believed that mockery by caricature should be reserved for Democrats, and did not approve of Nast's cartoons assailing Republicans such as 564:. Nast's cartoons helped Cleveland become the first Democrat to be elected president since 1856. In the words of the artist's grandson, Thomas Nast St Hill, "it was generally conceded that Nast's support won Cleveland the small margin by which he was elected. In his last national political campaign, Nast had, in fact, 'made a president. 552:
publisher Fletcher Harper strongly supported Nast in his disputes with Curtis. In 1877, Harper died, and his nephews, Joseph W. Harper Jr. and John Henry Harper, assumed control of the magazine. They were more sympathetic to Curtis' arguments for rejecting cartoons that contradicted his editorial
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lost its political importance." Nast's biographer Fiona Deans Halloran says "the former is true to a certain extent, the latter unlikely. Readers may have missed Nast's cartoons, but
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for more than 20 years. Nast was a feared caricaturist, and is often called the father of American political cartooning. He was the first to use an elephant as the symbol of the
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from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor, alongside illustrations. It carried extensive coverage of the
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position on Reconstruction. In the 1870s, the cartoonist Thomas Nast began an aggressive campaign in the journal against the corrupt New York political leader
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devoted more print to political and social issues, and featured articles by some of the more prominent political figures of the time, such as
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included an illustration taken from a photograph of his back, severely scarred from whippings. The image provided many readers in the
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their first visual evidence of slavery's brutality. The image and story inspired many free blacks in the North to enlist in the
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were related to the American Civil War. Besides illustrations by Homer and Nast, the magazine published illustrations by
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s content, and it developed a reputation for using some of the most renowned illustrators of the time, notably
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during 1861–1865 that relate specifically to the Commonwealth of Virginia and its part in the Civil War.
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Throntveit, Trygve (2008). "'Common Counsel': Woodrow Wilson's Pragmatic Progressivism, 1885–1913". In
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prior to the Civil War's outbreak in 1861, earning it the label "Harper's Weakly" by critics.
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from 1912 to 1914. The magazine published its final issue on May 13, 1916. It was absorbed by
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In 1884, however, Curtis and Nast agreed that they could not support the Republican candidate
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dinner in 1906. After that dinner, Harvey would make sure that he "emblazoned each issue of
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History
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headquarters and depended on contributions from readers for much of its content.
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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840–1865
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in its editorial positions, and supported the presidential candidacy of
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title for a spinoff publication, which was published biweekly from its
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in 1850. The monthly publication featured established authors such as
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Heidler, David Stephen; Heidler, Jeanne T.; Coles, David J. (2002).
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was the most widely read journal in the United States during the
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had reached 200,000. Illustrations were an important part of the
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was his Christmas illustration in December 1886. Journalist
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Defunct political magazines published in the United States
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broke out, the magazine fully supported Lincoln and the
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Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons
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Index

Harper's Magazine
Harper's Bazaar
Harpers Wine & Spirit

President
Abraham Lincoln
Winslow Homer
Mathew Brady
Winslow Homer
Livingston Hopkins
Thomas Nast
Granville Perkins
Theodore R. Davis
Fletcher Harper
Harper & Brothers
New York City
New York
English
New York City
Harper & Brothers
American Civil War
Thomas Nast

Harper & Brothers
Fletcher
James

Alfred Waud
Gettysburg battlefield
American Civil War

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