The cartoons of Pulitzer Prize winning Clifford K. Berryman are featured in three free e-books issued by The National Archives (in one of them Clifford shares the spotlight with his Pulitzer Prize-winning son Jim Berryman).
Each book features a high resolution cartoon per page with a sentence giving the date and the event depicted. Also included is an introduction, a worksheet/study guide, and a paragraph with the cartoons’ historical context.
A Visual History, 1940–1963 : Political Cartoons by Clifford Berryman and Jim Berryman presents 70 political cartoons that invite students to explore American history from the early years of World War II to the civil rights movement. These images, by father-and-son cartoonists Clifford Berryman and Jim Berryman, highlight many significant topics, including WWII and its impact, the Cold War, the space race, the nuclear arms race, and the struggle for school desegregation. [116 pages]
Download A Visual History, 1940-1963: Political Cartoons by Clifford Berryman and Jim Berryman
America and the World: Foreign Affairs in Political Cartoons, 1898 – 1940 presents 63 political cartoons by Clifford K. Berryman that invite students to discuss American foreign policy from the Spanish American War to the start of World War II. [105 pages]
Download America and the World: Foreign Affairs in Political Cartoons, 1898-1940
Representing Congress presents a selection of political cartoons by Clifford K. Berryman to engage students in a discussion of what Congress is, how it works, and what it does. [65 pages]
Download Representing Congress: Clifford K. Berryman’s Political Cartoons
Further reading:
Clifford K. Berryman at The National Archives (A collection of 2,400 original pen-and-ink drawings)
The Clifford Berryman Cartoon Collection at the DC Public Library (contains 108 political cartoons)
hat tip to Mike Rhode and Comics DC for the heads up about the e-books and the library collection