Cartooning Evolution

Posted 21 September 2009 by

Mark Aldrich of Smith College has posted a prodigious number of cartoons under the title "Cartooning Evolution, 1861-1925." You may look at thumbnails listed under various categories: Darwin and Evolution, Evolution as Social Comment, Victorian Science, and The Scopes Trial as interpreted by northern and southern newspapers and national magazines. Each thumbnail has a link to a larger image. According to Mr. Aldrich, many of the cartoons are readily available from the Library of Congress and other sources. Acknowledgement: Thanks to Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education for the reference.

6 Comments

Non-techno Tom · 21 September 2009

Off topic: I don't look at many Youtube videos, but a few (see video from Cristina at Pharyngula, others from Thunderf00t)ask for ratings to overcome the efforts of votebots. Here is my problem. I don't see anywhere that tells me how to rate/vote. Can someone help me out with _simple_ instructions? Thanks.

Wheels · 22 September 2009

You may need to have a Youtube account to rate.

There should be a group of five stars right beneath the Play/Pause control on the player. Click on any of the stars to assign your ranking to the video.

Wheels · 22 September 2009

To clarify, if you want to rate it as a 5, click the fifth star. If you think the video was awful, click the first star.

eric · 22 September 2009

That is an excellent source of interesting cartoons and kudos to Mark.

I have only one complaint: you can't cut & paste the cartoons separately. Each page of cartoons appears to be a single image. This is unfortunate.

e-dogg · 22 September 2009

Um... Click on the text link below the image you want and you'll see the full size image alone, which can be copied or saved.

eric · 22 September 2009

Cool, I missed that. Thanks.