You may be surprised to learn that the relationship between the elephant and donkey and political parties in the U.S. goes all the way back to the mid-1800s.Read on to find out how we got here.

The Donkey of Democracy antedates the Republican Elephant by more than four years. It was in the issue of Harper's Weekly for Jan. 15, 1870, that the long-eared animal dropped off the tip of Nast ...

INSKEEP: By the mid-1900s, the donkey and elephant merchandise was mass-produced. And of course, as with all politics, there is a strategy behind all of this.

Why Republicans are elephants and Democrats are donkeys: ... it is thought that the Republican elephant was first used in an Illinois newspaper back in the 1860 presidential election campaign ...

Let’s begin to talk openly not about the elephant in the room but the donkey. President Joe Biden has two gigantic actuarial and electoral challenges in front of him: His ...

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Random House is giving the Democrats and the Republicans equal time -- if not quite equal pages -- in two new books. At 600 pages, Lewis L. Gould's "Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans ...

Let’s begin to talk openly not about the elephant in the room but the donkey. President Joe Biden has two gigantic actuarial and electoral challenges in front of him: His age and Vice President ...