Richard Samuel West Lecture

 
Richard Samuel West
Blood Lines: The Civil War in Caricature
Cowles Library, Drake University
November 14, 2013
 
In this lecture Richard Samuel West traces the history of the American Civil War through a variety of cartoons, both Northern and Southern.
 
Richard Samuel West is an expert in the history of American comic art as well as a dealer in out-of-print periodicals.  He is the author of several studies of nineteenth-century cartooning.  His most recent book is Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of Jay N. “Ding” Darling (2012).  His business, Periodyssey, is based in Easthampton, Massachusetts.