German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

Origins: The elephant became associated with the Republican Party also thanks to Thomas Nast. In the same 1874 cartoon mentioned above, Nast depicted an elephant labeled "The Republican Vote ...

A donkey wearing a lion’s skin representing “Caesarism” frightens away an elephant labeled as the “Republican vote,” nearly falling into the trap of claims by Democratic-leaning Southern ...

Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Republican Party emerged in 1854 from the embers of the anti-slavery movement and the ashes of the Whigs.

A small contingent of Republicans in Congress on Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump’s pardons of more than 1,500 people charged for their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the ...

Morey, of Rutland, held one that said, “We need to talk about the elephant in the womb,” with a drawing of the Republican elephant symbol inside a sketch of the female reproductive system.