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Margaret Storey
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Civil War historian, parent advocate for kids and young adults with disabilities, defender of Medicaid.
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These kinds of unified representations of Union and Confederate soldiers seem to begin during the Spanish-American war, with the sentiment that reunification was a positive consequence of that war. The addition of John Bull in this cartoon further adds to the white supremacist nature of the image.
Cartoon from “Cartoons of Our War with Spain,” by Charles Nelan [c. 1898]. Caption is “If the war brings nothing else, we are thankful.” The illustration shows a man who looks like Robert E. Lee wearing a sash labelled “South,” holding hands with a man who looks like Abraham Lincoln, wearing a sash labelled “The North.” Both men are reaching up to look at and hold hands with the character of John Bull, representing England, who is reaching down to reach them over a wall adorned with the Union Jack flag.
April 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Amazing to be part of Chicago’s contribution to this historic day. And so many amazing groups in towns and suburbs across the state. We are here! We are determined! We are standing up! #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This one, which I’ve so often used in my lectures on the late nineteenth century, keeps coming to mind today.

Original at digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/aacb8b....
Color cartoon shows the head and hands of a giant John D Rockefeller in the foreground. He is wearing a monocle and peering at a tiny White House that he is holding in the palm of his hand. People and money falls out of the White House as Rockefeller pokes at it, while in the background, the Capitol, now renamed Standard Oil Refinery, and the Treasury Department pump out black pollution through multiple smokestacks now sprouting from their roofs. The caption says, “The Trust Giant’s Point of View: ‘What a Funny Little Government.’”
December 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM