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 Maritza Irizarry | Nov 21, 2025
Joseph Keppler’s “Uncle Sam’s Lodging-House,” published as the centerfold of Puck on June 7, 1882, is a revealing commentary on late-nineteenth-century American anxieties surrounding immigration, urban housing, and political disorder. It was created by Keppler, an...
by Maria Portela Mesquita | Nov 19, 2025
The World War I poster titled “Columbia Calls” was created in 1916 by Frances Adams Halsted and illustrated by V. Aderente. The poster was meant to encourage young men to join the U.S. Army during a time where America was still deciding whether or not to enter the...
by Raynard Horvath | Mar 18, 2020
This poster was created in nineteen-nineteen by Howard Chandler Christy, and shows a blonde female who appears to be a citizen of the United States in a nursing gown. Behind her is an American flag and the words on top of the flag read The Spirit of America. Below the...