On this day in 1870, the first Thomas Nast cartoon depicting democrats as donkeys was published in Harper's Weekly. Listen for the story of where that image originally came from!
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Ep 24: How the Father of American Cartoons Popularized the Democratic Donkey
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Ep 24: How the Father of American Cartoons Popularized the Democratic Donkey