Creator Bio
Bernhard Gillam
1856–1896
Bernhard Gillam was born in Banbury, in Oxfordshire, UK. When he was ten, his parents immigrated to New York. As a young man, he became an influential and popular political cartoonist there. He died at 39 of typhoid.
Content by Bernhard Gillam
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Grant’s Order No. 11 and Jewish Distrust after the Civil War
In 1862, Grant expelled Jews from his military district. Two decades later, political cartoons mocked his attempt to win back Jewish support.