From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Position paper written by Aaron Henry, chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in 1964. He describes the attempts of the MFDP to obtain delegation status in the National...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing a train engineer's cap, drives a long train, the engine of which is labeled "Recession line." George H. W. Bush, also wearing an engineer's cap, is in the engine...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An unhappy baby is in a stroller labeled "Recession." The baby's clothes and blanket are patched. The end of the stroller has a graph labeled "Economy" with a downward trend line. Two...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Rintz. A moth with stars on the forewings and stripes on the hindwings has flown very close to the flame of a tall candle and has been singed. The light field radiating from the candle has...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam is sitting up in a hospital bed in a semi-private room. A thermometer labeled "Political fever" is in his mouth, and an icepack labeled "Energy headaches" is on his head....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam holds a piece of paper labeled "U.S. Mideast peace plan." From left and right, he is being slapped in the face by two hands at once. On one side, the arm is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam drives a stage coach, inside of which are a trunk labeled "U.S. gold" and a person with a head shaped like a U.S. coin. The coin is labeled "U.S. $ [dollar]." The stage...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. In the upper frame of the cartoon, Uncle Sam gestures toward a man labeled "Little Rhodesia," who is standing near a sign labeled "Off limits, U.N. sanctions." Uncle Sam says, "I...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Uncle Sam, with rolled up sleeves, stands over a wash tub. With one hand, he pours hot water from a kettle labeled "Public disgust" into the wash tub. With the other, he holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Richard Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans sit on the lid of a wooden coffin labeled "Watergate affair." They each hold hammers and are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. In the foreground is the corner of a large building with columns, labeled "Law, justice, decency among nations." In the distance is a small tent surrounded by men using whips and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A white-haired, elderly man wearing a suit that typifies the plantation owner of the Old South is labeled "Dixie." He is smoking a cigar and clapping. Nicholas Katzenbach, smoking...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A whale [sperm whale?] labeled "Wilbur Mills" lies on a beach far from the water, which is in the background of the cartoon, labeled "Political processes." The eyes of the whale...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A slight looking man labeled "U.S. taxpayer" walks beside Richard Nixon. He sweats and strains as he carries Attorney General John Mitchell on his shoulders labeled "Legal fees for...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Uncle Sam watches with dismay as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, both with feathered wings strapped to their shoulders, stand poised to jump off the edge of a high cliff...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The horizon line of the cartoon is the curve of the earth, with Paris and the Eiffel Tower on the horizon and Vietnam in the foreground. A giant megaphone with a hammer and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The cartoon is divided in two parts. On the left side, an American soldier sits on one side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and reads a newspaper with the headline, "'68 election...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. South Vietnam's Nguyen Cao Ky and Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek stand before a giant in army uniform, labeled "U.S.," who is shown from the hips down. Ky, a young man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the upper half of the cartoon, Uncle Sam is dressed as a soldier. Holding a rife, he is walking in the direction indicated by a sign that reads "The war." Behind him is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the four frames of this cartoon, Uncle Sam sits at a table with Nikita Khrushchev in a room with a window and a grandfather's clock that is chiming the hour. The time on the...
