Memorial Day originally was known as “Decoration Day.” This day was set aside after the Civil War to decorate the graves of ...

Its mission: to disseminate political propaganda ... soldiers carrying guns. The poster implies that by walking instead of driving, she is doing her patriotic duty, since “trucks and tires ...

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 ...

It is fascist propaganda. H: But also, that first poster by Boccasile is great because ... SL: [In “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty“]: American hero, Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor.

But when we think of propaganda, we may also think of a certain visual style: the propaganda poster, using a modernist aesthetic – all bold block colours, strident text and simple imagery – to ...

Walking into the gallery of the Hoover Tower, I watched kaleidoscopic collections of Japanese propaganda posters unfold before me, luring me in with their weight of history and air of mystery.

Inside were nine enormous posters, weathered and folded into sixteenths. Though the text was Cyrillic, the imagery was clear: These were World War II propaganda posters promoting the Soviet-U.S ...

asks Senior Lecturer in Russian Reed Johnson. In a recent research project, Johnson took a fresh look at propaganda posters from the era and considered the language and imagery employed to mobilize ...