by Anthony Raflah | Nov 21, 2025
Both the U.S. government and private organizations conducted large scale propaganda in order to build support for the war, most notably in Laura Brey’s 1917 recruitment poster [4] “Enlist: On Which Side of the Window Are You?” This image captures what is likely a...
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 Steven Geiger | Dec 7, 2024
Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison was among Claude Debussy’s last works and was written as Christmas was around the corner. The song was created both as a lament of the poor children’s situation as well as a vessel with which to criticize the war. At...
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 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...