Description: This bittersweet double-page cartoon by Thomas Nast mourns the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which came just one week after the Union victory in the Civil War.

In the cartoon's upper-left and upper-right insets, a white and black family, respectively, mourn Lincoln's death. The white patriarch reads the Bible from his seat of authority, while...

Feb 1, 2022 · Throughout his 1860 campaign and tumultuous wartime administration, cartoons poked at Lincoln from across the political spectrum. Some artists supported “Honest Abe,” making a virtue of his...

Oct 10, 2012 · Description: This bittersweet double-page cartoon by Thomas Nast mourns the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which came just one week after the Union victory in the Civil War.

Oct 14, 2012 · Superman saves Lincoln just in time in a comic from 1961. He later discovers he is in a parallel world and history is unchanged in the “real” world. In this West Coast Avengers comic from 1990, Lincoln is able to thwart his own assassination by quick reflexes.

Description: Issued in the wake of Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, the print conveys some of the Northern hostility toward the conspirators, whom the public associated with former president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis.

After President Lincoln’s assassination, however, Tenniel composed a simple cartoon, “Britannia Sympathises with Columbia.” After the Civil War, Tenniel did the illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Apr 26, 2010 · The museum continues its commemoration (April 14-26) of the extraordinary life of Abraham Lincoln on the anniversary of his assassination with special activities across the Web and around D.C.

After Lincoln’s assassination, Northern families often displayed in their homes lithographic prints of the man they believed to be the savior of their nation. This colored print from shortly after Lincoln’s death depicts an interior scene of his assassination at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865.

The print is a reproduction of a cartoon that comments on Abraham Lincoln traveling in disguise from Harrisburg to Washington on 23 February 1861 for the Presidential Inauguration. The disguised trip was in response to an assassination threat.