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 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...
by Christie Joshi | Nov 4, 2020
In the image, “Bonds -which?” from Cesare of the NY Evening Post (1917), the propaganda poster depicts an image of Uncle Sam holding chains in one hand and a liberty bond in the other hand with a train moving in a desolate background. In 1917 when this image was first...