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Michael O'Malley, Professor of History at George Mason University, discusses the tricky questions of how to deal with cartoon images as historical…

Avital Shcharansky, wife of Anatoly Shcharansky, at a contemporary press conference to discuss her husband's condition in light of a report by Soviet leader Yuri Andropov that he had ended his hunger strike, begun over 125 days before in Chistopol…

This Washington Post site is a retrospective of Herbert Block's five decades as a political cartoonist.…

This Washington Post site collects many of the cartoons Herbert drew as a cartoonist.…

This is a Washington Post collection of Herbert Block cartoons.…

Natan Sharansky on Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East Former imprisoned Soviet dissident and current Israeli Minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs looks at the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United Nations, the Western press, and…

In one of Charles Schulz's Peanuts strips, Lucy announces that she's going to be a political cartoonist "lashing out with my crayon." Just as Charlie Brown asks the subject of her work, she strikes the paper with such a bold stroke that it snaps her…

While the arrest and incarceration of Anatoly Shcharansky didn't stir up enough popular sentiment alone to inspire a US boycott of the 1980 Olympics, the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR did. This cartoon by Edmund Valtman discusses events…

Olympic athletes make tremendous sacrifices in terms of time, money, and effort, to compete. One of the unfortunate consequences of America's boycott in 1980 is that athletes were not permitted to compete. As well, many people believe that politics…

The Refuseniks (from left to right) back: Vitaly Rubin, Vladimir Slepak, Lev Ovsisscher, Alexander Druk, Yossi Beilin, Dina Beilin front: Natan Sharansky, Ida Nudel, Alexander Lerner. A large number of Soviet Jews applied for exit visas to leave…