by Lea Banks | Dec 1, 2025
This piece was made on July 30, 1915, by an unknown author. It is a political cartoon that was made in favor of the suffragist movement. In order to understand the cartoon, it is important to know about Women’s Suffrage. Women’s Suffrage was a movement that was...
by Safia Mahin | Dec 1, 2025
In January of 1918, amidst the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress in one of the most historic speeches of that time period. Wilson’s address proposed a blueprint for achieving a peaceful world; he called it “The Fourteen Points.” He proposed...
by Wania Shabee | Nov 22, 2025
The year 1918 marked the final and most intense phase of the First World War, a moment when the U.S. government relied heavily on propaganda to mobilize the home front. One striking example is the poster that reads: “Don’t talk—the web is spun for you with invisible...
by Giovanni Cerese | Nov 21, 2025
During World War I, the US government set up an extensive propaganda campaign to persuade American citizens to buy Liberty Bonds. These bonds were a major source of money for military operations abroad. The poster “Keep These Off the U.S.A.” plays on the...
by Ayenn Pierre Louis | Nov 21, 2025
The American chain gang is a haunting symbol of the nation’s failure to fulfill the promise of freedom after the Civil War. It represents a line between slavery and incarceration, a system that was built to punish crime but to reassert racial hierarchy under the...