In it the donkey—ears back, hind legs poised to deliver a vicious blow⁠—is labelled “COPPERHEAD PAPERS”, a reference to the newspapers sympathetic to a faction of anti-war Democrats ...

Here's how each symbol came to be associated with the Democratic and Republican parties: Origins: The donkey first became associated with the Democratic Party during Andrew Jackson's presidential ...

Political opponents had used a donkey as a way of insulting Democrats since the days of Democratic president Andrew Jackson. But it was Nast’s revival of the Democratic donkey in his Jan. 18 ...

As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the donkey the Democratic Party. What is less well known is how the animals came to ...

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 ...