American Propoganda in WWI

By Gannon Foley and Jake Sherman

This week on the podcast, Gannon and Jake discuss different types of American WWI propaganda and the effects it had on the country.

“Can Vegetables, Fruit, and the Kaiser too.”  Accessed October 11, 2020.  https://www.history.nd.gov/exhibits/gardening/images/popups/10935-P150-can-the-kaiser.jpg. 

Collier, Barron G.  “Times Are Hard Your Majesty—You Leave Us Nothing to Do.”  1918.  Poster.  World Digital Library.  Accessed October 11, 2020.  https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4527/. 

Flagg, James Montgomery.  “I Want You for US Army.”  1917.  Poster.  World Digital Library.  Accessed October 11, 2020.  https://www.wdl.org/en/item/576/. 

Karunaratne, Natasha.  “The Anti-German Sentiment of WWI.”  Re-Imagining Migration.  Accessed October 11, 2020.  https://reimaginingmigration.org/the-anti-german-sentiment-of-world-war-i/. 

Siegel, Robert and Art Silverman.  “During World War I, US Government Propaganda Erased German Culture.”  NPR.  April 7, 2017.  Accessed October 11, 2020.  https://www.npr.org/2017/04/07/523044253/during-world-war-i-u-s-government-propaganda-erased-german-culture. 

Strothmann, Frederick.  “Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds.”  1918.  Poster.  “The Anti-German Sentiment of World War I” by Natasha Karunaratne.  Re-Imagining Migration.   Accessed October 11, 2020.  https://reimaginingmigration.org/the-anti-german-sentiment-of-world-war-i/.

British War Propaganda

Sources

Welch, David. Depicting the enemy. British Library, 2014. https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/depicting-the-enemy.
Fox, Jo. Atrocity Propaganda. British Library, 2014. https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/atrocity-propaganda
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/britain/espionage.htm
The National Archives. Propaganda 1914-1918. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g6/background.htm

The “Pals” Battalions

Sources: 

Robinson, Bruce. The Pals Battalions in World War I. BBC, 3 Mar. 2011. Web. 6 Feb. 2016. http://www.bbc.co.uk/.../british/britain_wwone/pals_01.shtml.

"Carnage as 235 Pals died in 20 minutes." Accrington Observer 30 June 2006. Web. 6 Feb. 2016. http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/.../carnage-as-235....