by Marianne Carr | Dec 4, 2022
In 1917, artist Frederic G. Cooper created the poster above to promote the conservation of food for the American public. Until then, the United States had maintained a neutral position in World War I and provided the Allied forces with supplies to sustain...
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 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...