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...Prodigiously researched and closely observed, this study offers us an unsurpassed compendium of Nast’s work and succeeds in capturing the man in all his dimensions, commitments, and passions. At the...
Homepage
...his Artistic/Literary Sources Click Here for Complete Index of Nast’s Life and Work » Topics/Issues Ten major categories and dozens of sub-categories comprise this section. Click Here for Complete Index...
The Chicago Platform (extract)
Harper’s Weekly – October 15, 1864 This is an extracted centerpiece from The Chicago Platform, Nast’s 20-vignette follow-up to Compromise with the South, and published a month before the 1864...
Our Common Schools As They Are and As They May Be
Harper’s Weekly – February 26, 1870 After the Tweed Ring obtained more power in state as well as city government, Church schools received a large proportion of common school funding....
Compromise with the South — Dedicated to the Chicago Convention
...on August 24 (post-dated September 3), as the Convention was assembling. Compromise with the South — Dedicated to the Chicago Convention captured the very crux of the existential emotional and...
Foreshadowing of Coming Events in Our Public Schools
...used to support parochial schools of any denomination. Conversely, many Catholics rejected Protestant “common” schools because they objected to lessons in history and religion which denigrated the authority and practices...
Cipher Mumm(er)y
...Republican Senate committee had a batch of incriminating telegrams, probably obtained illicitly from Western Union. Playing cat-and-mouse beginning in August, it printed bits and pieces of the translated telegrams over...
Encyclopedic Index
...an example Click Here for Complete Index of Nast’s Life and Work » Topics/Issues Ten major categories and dozens of sub-classifications comprise this section. Where applicable, Nast’s characters are also...
“It’s Love that Makes the World Turn Round”
...legal announcements, and was paid for at two to five times normal rates. Comptroller Richard (Slippery Dick) Connolly was known to withhold payment of selected advertising claims until newspapers complied...
An Appeal to Marble
...a Republican Senate committee had a batch of incriminating telegrams, probably obtained illicitly from Western Union. Playing cat-and-mouse beginning in August, it printed bits and pieces of the translated telegrams...