Christopher Columbus

  Christopher Columbus is a well-known Italian explorer who worked for the Spanish crown to find a path from the west to Asia. On August 3, 1492, he sailed away from Spain on three ships that were named, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. In the years that...

FDR’s State of the Union Address: 1943

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Union_Address_for_1943_by_Franklin_Roosevelt.ogg January 7th, 1943, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt made history with his State of the Union Address. In the heat of World War II, FDR was one of the only morale...
Soldiers Without Guns

Soldiers Without Guns

The war poster, “Soldiers Without Guns” was created by Adolph Treidler in 1944 during end of World War II. Published by the U.S Government Printing Office, this poster is just one example of the propaganda used during this time period to implore more women to join the...
Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima

Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima

Beginning on December 7, 1941, with the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii until the final surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945, the United States was involved in a brutal war in the Pacific. Allied with Britain and France, U.S. troops fought...
We Can Do It

We Can Do It

Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of art that started as World War II propaganda and is still to this day recognized as a feminist symbol for gender equality. World War II was a war of ideologies, with Fascism quickly emerging in Germany and Italy, other countries...