by Aakash Arumugam | Nov 29, 2025
7 On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the U.S. Army to designate “military areas” from which any person could be excluded. Though the order did not...
by Stephan Naderi | Nov 22, 2025
The photograph reveals British soldiers exhausted but packed into every inch of space on a rescue boat’s decks as they are extracted from the vicinity of Dunkirk. Taken by British Army photographers E. G. Malindine and L. A. Puttnam, the photograph illustrates one of...
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 Landry Wilson | Nov 21, 2025
Populated cities and technologically overgrown areas are formed from the times in which American citizens took part in urbanism. This period is widely known as the progressive era, this era included a massive amount of people moving to urban areas in thought to...