Helen Keller Photo

Helen Keller Photo

This image pictures an excited Helen Keller holding two-year old and fellow passenger Donald Hart on board the ocean linear Independence after the ship docked in New York. It was captured by photographer, Ed Ford in 1956. The 1950s in the United States were a decade...
My daddy bought me a government bond of the third liberty loan.

My daddy bought me a government bond of the third liberty loan.

When the Great War, also referred to as World War I, first erupted in Europe, America “remained neutral” on paper, yet provided supplies and financial assistance to the Allied Powers – France, Great Britain, and Russia.((D.E. Shi (2019). America: A Narrative History...
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...
Corn: The Food of the Nation

Corn: The Food of the Nation

Corn: The Food of The Nation was an American propaganda poster created by Lloyd Harrison for the United States Food Administration in 1918, during the Great War. The Great War was a time in which President Wilson needed to shape the nation in a way to encourage...