by Ayame Ciocoiu | Dec 2, 2025
“Wake Up America!” is a recognizable work of WWI propaganda designed for the Mayor’s Committee on National Defense, a non-profit organization formed by city officials during the war in 1917. American artist, James Montgomery Flagg was...
by Valerie Melo | Dec 2, 2025
Charles Livingston Bull’s campaign poster “Save the products of the land – Eat more fish – they feed themselves” was created between 1917 to 1918 for the United States Food Administration (USFA). This was during World War I, which was a critical time for food...
by Zanaya Melchor | Dec 1, 2025
In this picture from October 1940, a couple of school-aged children gather potatoes on a large farm in Caribou, Maine. The caption, “Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested,” comes from Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer Jack...
by Natalie Mack | Dec 1, 2025
Bloody Sunday: Alabama Police Attack, an FBI photograph taken in March 1965, captures one of the most violent and consequential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. The image exhibits Alabama State Troopers in Selma, Alabama, attacking nonviolent protestors. These...
by Serena John | Dec 1, 2025
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occurred on August 28, 1963, where over 250,000 people gathered for this movement. In the photograph by the Library of Congress, it shows this event from the Civil Rights Movement which captures the protesters marching...