F.D.R. Americanism

https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-war-americanism-transcription.pdf This speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on August 9 of 1920, presented in Hyde Park, New York, and detailed the end of World War I and America’s fallen soldiers....

Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat

The 1918 print, “Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat” by Edward Penfield was created as war-effort propaganda for the United Stated Food Administration during World War I((Penfield, Edward. “Will You Help the Women of France? Save Wheat / Edward Penfield.”...
Treaty of Versailles Cartoon

Treaty of Versailles Cartoon

After five years of devastating conflict between the Central and Allied powers, World War I came to an end with the Treaty of Versailles. The peace treaty required Germany to disassemble its military, pay war reparations, and give up its colonies overseas. [1]...
Spanish Flu Newspaper Article

Spanish Flu Newspaper Article

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...
“For Every Fighter A Woman Worker” – Y.W.C.A.

“For Every Fighter A Woman Worker” – Y.W.C.A.

For every fighter a woman worker Y.W.C.A : Back our second line of defense –a poster created by Ernest Hamlin Baker in 1918; intending to showcase and encourage women workers, during World War I. In 1914 former president Woodrow Wilson was faced with a great...