Harper's Weekly

“The way to have power is to take it.” These were the words of a man that was rated one of the top ten most corrupt US politicians of all time by Real Clear Politics. A corrupt leader could be considered a Machiavellian. Dictionary.com describes a Machiavellian as someone who follows the principles analyzed and described in The Prince. The Prince, is a book written in in 1513 by Niccolo Machiavelli that was dedicated to the Magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici. It is widely believed to be a handbook to leaders on how to gain power, and how to maintain it. There have been many leaders throughout world history that have displayed traits comparable to the ones depicted in Machiavelli’s book. Leaders included in that list are Adolf Hitler, Ivan the Terrible, Pot Pot, and Kim Jong Un. An example from the United States, however, is William “Boss” Tweed. Involved in scandals, bribes, and a political machine, Boss Tweed used cunning tactics and mind games to become one of the most powerful leaders and politicians in New York history. In chapters six and seven of the prince, Machiavelli states that it is better to come to power through skill rather than fortune. Boss Tweed began using skill to rise to political power in 1948 when he worked his way up the ranks of a volunteer fire company that was widely known as the “Big Six”. (Share 1205-1206) Being the streamlined political channels that they were during this time period, fire stations could provide someone like Tweed with a great…

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filthy, crime and disease-ridden places that could not be escaped. The first issue of Harper’s Weekly, a periodical that featured both domestic and foreign news, fiction pieces, interviews, and cartoon illustrations, was published in 1857. The magazine’s popularity grew during the period of the Civil War because, as an April 1865 issue of the North American Review testified, “Its vast circulation, deservedly secured and maintained by the excellence and variety of its illustrations of the…

By connecting the representation of various major subjects in Dickens’s work to the representations presented in Harper’s, as someone confused by the text beforehand, I was able to draw my own conclusion and make my own analysis on the meaning behind Dickens’s words in the historical backdrop that I once had very little knowledge on. One of the first main points of representation that is comparable between A Tale of Two Cities and Harper’s Weekly is the two sources views on women of the time.…

any position to which he might aspire.” The North was extremely hypocritical at this point. They supported the freedom of all people, yet they didn’t want blacks in their government. They thought that blacks weren’t able to take on any political roles simply because of their former position as slaves. This was demeaning for the black citizens of America- they were still seen as slaves, as a lower class, despite their newfound freedom that the northern states had fought so hard for. (Heather Cox…

newspaper once wrote: “long enough for the black to have forgotten something of his condition as a slave…” (Richardson 517). This shows that people in the North were still referring to African-Americans as “slaves.” This is also coming from the pro-Grant and pro-freedmen newspaper, so this is as good as it gets. Another way that the North was racist is that they were “weary of the ‘Negro Question’ and ‘sick of carpet-bag’ government…” (Danzer 515). The Northerners were tired of wondering what…

19th century Gilded Age revealed, on a large scale, key issues at stake throughout the era. These drawings flourished in the 1860s due to advances in new technology of mass circulation and because people of all kinds; young, old, black, white, educated, illiterate could interpret the intense meaning from the artists. Cartoonists emerged by the names of Thomas Nast from Harper’s Weekly, Joseph Kepper of Puck, Frank Beard, Eugene Zimmerman, Grant Hamilton, etc. Most of these illustrators rose to…

Thomas Nast was undoubtedly the most successful and influential illustrator in American history and his political cartoons had considerable influence over the nation during the second half of the nineteenth century. His impact on American public life was noted enough to profoundly affect the outcome of presidential election during that period. Nast was involved in the creation or refinement of some of the most iconic images in American history: the elephant for the Republican party, the donkey…

The first piece is known as, “Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner” and it was created by Thomas Nast. It was painted around 1869, and published November 20th, 1869 in Harper's Weekly. It shows an array of people sitting around a large table, in a Thanksgiving setting. There are different pictures hanging on the wall and various items on the table, such as a turkey and large centerpiece. The picture was created four years after the Civil War came to a halt and depicts America regrouping and becoming…

When Harper’s Bazaar started their publications, it was formatted as a weekly newspaper, to attract women from middle to upper class. In 1901 Harper’s Bazaar transitioned into publishing monthly issues, which it continues to do until today (‘’Harper’s Bazaar’’, n.d.). Harper 's Bazaar’s framework brings together the creators of fashion and their muses who model their design, which is than captured by the eye of the photographer, resulting in the making of a sophisticated and creative brand.…