and TV graphics showing the image of the elephant and the donkey are everywhere. As anyone with even a passing interest in US politics knows, the elephant represents the Republican Party and the ...

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 ...

A Republican group in Alabama is apologizing after accidentally using a picture of the GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery. The Lawrence County Republican Party intended to post an ...

As for the Republican elephant, the image was first seen during the tenure of the first Republican president: Abraham Lincoln. It was featured as a Republican symbol in at least one political ...

The Republican elephant was first seen in an 1874 cartoon ... Duke is curator of popular and applied graphic art in the prints and photographs division of the Library of Congress and says the ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time. They would arrive two weeks later. Scientists who later studied ...

The head of the Lawrence County Republican Party apologized Monday after the organization’s Facebook page used a photo of a GOP elephant that contained Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying the hooded ...

In U.S. politics, the Democratic Party has been represented by a donkey and the Republican Party by an elephant for decades. But few people know how long they've symbolized the two big parties ...