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...
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 Gregg Walsh | Nov 15, 2022
This photo is from the archives of the League of Nations and German Peace Society, and it shows a German soldier dead in the battlefields during World War I from 1914-1918. This photo was taken to show the horrors and destruction of the war. To ensure that destructive...
by Kya Amaro | Nov 30, 2021
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...