History Cartoons

"We're still analyzing the data from our door-to-door survey."

"Good news, Sir Reginald. The King has elected you his succesor to the throne."

"I practiced for the AP US History exam all day yesterday, so I'm as ready as Alexander Hamilton giving the Gettysburg address at the Alamo."

(In Jan. 1943, The Decision To Invade Italy Through Sicily Was Made At The Casablanca Conference.) "President Roosevelt, you know General de Gaulle, Prime Minister Churchill, Sam the piano player."

In August of 1939, British Codebreakers Receive A Stolen German Cipher Machine Called "Enigma". The Machine Was Used To Send Coded Information Between German U-boats And Land Based Command. - We've pretty much deciphered how this thing works. One thing - we're still having trouble setting the bloody clock. Can't seem to stop it from showing '12:00' all the time.

"Okay - Mommy's going off now to build a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. You kids behave or I'll bring my rivet gun home with me."

(At The Treaty Of Versailles, Britain, France, Italy And The United States Established That Germany's Colonies Be Taken From Her, That They Be Excluded From The League Of Nations, And That They Pay Reparation For World War I. -Additionally, Several Lunch And Dinner Checks Were Charged To Their Account By The "Big Four".) "I think I'll start with the escargot, and then I'll have the Coq au Vin..."

(One of the great battles of the Civil War ... The Battle of Ft. Stuckey)

(After Several Tankards, Delegates to The Constitutional Convention Discuss the Separation of Powers) "Okay, the judiciary shall have the power of flight but not invisibility, which shall belong to the executive branch; and the legislative shall have the power to read minds and shape shift during a full moon."

(While studying at Brienne, Napoleon becomes greatly influenced by the life and politics of Caesar, and vows that some day, he too, will have a salad named after him.)