by James Tierney | Apr 29, 2024
American Progress, the 1872 painting by John Gast, is perhaps the most iconic portrayal of Manifest Destiny in the United States of America. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the young nation began to turn its eyesight towards westward...
by Alyssa Kajian | Nov 4, 2020
This political cartoon,((Keppler, Udo J., Artist. A trifle embarrassed / Keppler. , 1898. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, August 3. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647587/. )) titled “A Trifle Embarrassed,” was created by Udo J. Keppler 1891....