[WSCSS] Editorial Cartoon Collection

[Cindy Koeppel]

The Dirksen Congressional Center is pleased to announce the completion of
their Editorial Cartoon Collection project:
http://www.congresslink.org/cartoons/index.htm

The editorial cartoons and related lesson plans from The Dirksen Center will
teach students to identify issues, analyze symbols, acknowledge the need for
background knowledge, recognize stereotypes and caricatures, think
critically, and appreciate the role of irony and humor.

- About the Collection -

Editorial cartoonists loved Everett Dirksen (1896-1969)-his position of
influence as Minority Leader in the Senate (1959-69), his way with words,
and, of course, his distinctive appearance. Over the years, Senator
Dirksen's staff compiled a scrapbook containing more than 300 editorial
cartoons. Topics covered include Vietnam, civil rights, Republican Party
politics, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, reapportionment, Taft-Hartley 14(b),
school prayer, Dirksen's recording career, Senate procedures, congressional
pay, presidential appointments, and Dirksen's legacy. Naturally, cartoonists
also used these topics to depict Dirksen's relationship with President
Lyndon Johnson, with his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, and with the
Supreme Court. In addition, cartoonists sent Dirksen between 50 and 60
original sketches on equally diverse topics.

Among the scores of cartoonists represented in the collection are Herblock,
Gib Crockett, Hugo, Bill Mauldin, Gene Basset, Pat Oliphant, Al Capp, Wayne
Stayskal, Jim Berry, Guernsey LePelley, Tom Engelhardt, Paul Conrad, and Jim
Berryman. 

We welcome you to take a look and let us know what you think!

Cindy Koeppel
The Dirksen Congressional Center
2815 Broadway
Pekin, IL 61554

Phone: 309.347.7113
Fax: 309.347.6432
E-mail: ckoeppel at dirksencenter.org
http://www.dirksencongressionalcenter.org