Propaganda posters were all too common during the Second World War. When the globe plunged into total war, there came a need to get everyone on board. That said, some of these left something to be ...
ROCHESTER, N.H. — One poster in a recently discovered trove vilifies the Nazis with a sword through a Bible and the words “This Is the Enemy.” Some encouraged self-sacrifice by promoting recycling, ...
SPRINGFIELD — About 50 or so propaganda posters that are part of the exhibit, “In This Great Struggle: The Greatest Generation Remembers World War II,” at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum ...
You can probably picture the colorful posters depicting a sinking boat, Rosie the Riveter and the pointing American icon. A new exhibit at the Heroes Hall veterans museum at the OC Fair & Event Center ...
Spotlight on an original World War II propaganda leaflet which the Americans dropped on Japan. Students view the History Detective episode World War II Leaflets, which is about propaganda leaflets ...
While some of the propaganda posters commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II were designed to inspire fear, other posters -- like photographer Alexander Liberman's ...
"One thing is clear. These posters are trouble." That's the message artist Benny Nemer gave in an audio letter to Jane Becker Nelson, director and curator of the Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College.
Soldiers were asked to uphold the "old American custom" of daily showers in this cheeky propaganda poster. The U.S. Navy warned sailors against laziness, which weakened the navy and aided its enemies.
Jim Harrison’s novella Legends of the Fall, made famous by the 1994 film starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, recounts the tragedies that ensue when the three sons of an aristocratic Montana ...
George Lucas’s Star Wars films have always borrowed their inspiration from old sci-fi movie serials. Inspired by the likes of Flash Gordon[i], [i]Star Wars‘s entire aesthetic–from swashbuckling with ...
Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...