Cartoons
Bibliography
Brown, Jane E., and West, Richard Samuel. William Newman: A Victorian Cartoonist in London and New York. Easthampton, MA, 2008.
Bunker, Gary L. From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln’s Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865. Kent, Ohio, 2001.
Kent, Christopher. “War Cartooned/Cartoon War: Matt Morgan and the American Civil War in Fun and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.” Victorian Periodicals Review 36:2 (Summer 2003).
Lewin, J. G., and Huff, P. J. Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War. New York, 2007.
Thompson, William Fletcher. “Pictorial Images of the Negro during the Civil War.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 48:4 (Summer 1965).
On-line
Bernard F. Reilly Jr., American Political Prints, 1776-1876 (Library of Congress)
Abraham Lincoln Cartoons: Comic Portraits of His Presidency (HarpWeek)
Civil War Era Collection: Political Cartoons (Gettysburg College)
Ohio Civil War: Cartoons (Ohio Historical Society)
Richard Samuel West, historian of cartoons and popular publications and founder of New England’s Periodyssey, discusses the range of topics in and formats of political cartoons published during the Civil War and delineates how the medium changed obver the course of the conflict. This talk took place on July 16, 2012, as part of The Visual Culture of the American Civil War, an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers.