Thomas Nast

The Wartime Christmas Art of Thomas Nast

by Kristopher D White

Posted on December 23, 2025

December 2025 Header Image: “Santa Claus in Camp”

by Emerging Civil War

Posted on December 1, 2025

Book Review: Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Tim Talbott

Posted on April 17, 2025

How Civil War Cartoonist Thomas Nast Created Our Image of Santa Claus and Turned Santa into a Full-Fledged Union Supporter

by Tonya McQuade

Posted on December 24, 2023

Reality vs. Myth Regarding Abraham Lincoln’s War Elephants

by Neil P. Chatelain

Posted on November 7, 2022

Santa For the Yankees, Too

by Meg Groeling

Posted on December 11, 2019

“Christmas Eve”

by Kristopher D White

Posted on December 24, 2016

“An Especial Prize to the Boys:” Union Soldiers and the Illustrated News (Part 2)

by James Brookes

Posted on September 14, 2016

“An Especial Prize to the Boys:” Union Soldiers and the Illustrated News (Part 1)

by James Brookes

Posted on September 7, 2016