by Brian Cavanagh | Dec 4, 2022
The Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth by Joseph Pennell published in 1918 is an American propaganda poster. Propaganda has a wide range of definitions, but it can be boiled down to a piece of media that is meant to persuade the audience to a certain action or...
by Tamara Wijesinghe | Dec 4, 2022
This image pictures Louis Armstrong playing a trumpet in from of a large group of people in Mascot, Sydney((Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Plays for Fans on Arrival at Mascot, Sydney, 27 October 1954. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_%22Satchmo)). Louis...
by Julia Moreira | Dec 2, 2022
The “Spanish Influenza” was a virus that “quickly spread around the globe and altered the course of world history” as it took more lives than the Great War.((Gordon H. Hirshberg, “Medical Science’s Newest Discoveries about the ‘Spanish Influenza’.” The Washington...
by Jenna Eivazi | Dec 2, 2022
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/The_Jackie_Robinson_Story_%281950%29.ogv This piece in the museum is a movie that came out in 1950 called The Jackie Robinson Story[1]. Lawrence Taylor and Louis Pollock created the film’s script, which was directed...
by Kajal Patel | Nov 24, 2022
The source I have chosen is a photograph from 1917 that accurately depicts the Woman’s Suffrage Movement. The photograph is titled “Woman Suffrage Banners,” and was taken by Harris and Ewing. During 1917, the United States of America had just entered the First World...