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Tooning into History: McCarthyism at 60

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Learning standard:
Comprehending and evaluating the content and artistic aspects of oral and visual presentations.
Responding to a variety of written, visual and electronic texts by making connections to students' personal lives and the lives of others; posing social science questions
Grade Level: Middle grades and up.

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Editorial Cartoons: The Impact and Issues of an Evolving Craft

In their December 2004 issue, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism published a series of articles looking at political cartooning and its position in journalism today. The issue is available for download as a pdf file.

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Tooning into history

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They were there

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 Meet YOUR cartoonist

Henry Payne

Henry Payne produces five editorial cartoons a week for The Detroit News. He also writes and draws a column, Payne & Ink, which appears on the paper's Monday Op-Ed page. And his weekly auto industry cartoon, CarToons runs Tuesdays on The News' web site, detnews.com.

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Larry Wright

Larry Wright has been an editorial/op-ed page cartoonist at The Detroit News since 1976, currently drawing three editorial cartoons a week. Wright is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

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Mike Thompson

Mike Thompson is the editorial cartoonist for the Detroit Free Press. He began his career as contributing cartoonist for The Milwaukee Journal and later worked as staff cartoonist for the St. Louis Sun and the Copley Illinois newspapers before joining the Free Press in November 1998.

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The Opper Project: Teaching history through political cartoons

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Ohio State University has launched a project that uses editorial cartoons to teach history. You'll find lesson plans, downloadable toons and much more.



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