Category: War and Society
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Poster featuring a young woman in a dark blue (?) uniform at a switchboard, a mass of soldiers about to go into battle outside her window. Caption: “Back our girls over there / United War Work Campaign / Y.W.C.A.”
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Dear National Security Establishment, Please stop your collective freak-out about North Korea. The power of that country’s weapons lies mainly in our inability to tolerate any risk whatsoever.
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I find this 1917 poster interesting because it seems to target urban, working-class immigrants. Besides the dress of the people waiting in line to lend Uncle Sam some money, there is the American flag held by the child, whose enthusiasm attracts the attention of the adults around her. Children, whether…
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Preliminary thoughts on war and gender in the 19th century: revolution, conscription, volunteers, professional war planning, and atrocities.
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Poster in orange, black, and gray tones: A stark drawing of a stricken young mother and her two children fill ost of the poster. Caption: “Hunger Knows No Armistice…”
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Pen and ink drawing of Mars, stabbed dead by a knife and lying on the globe, 1918.
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Photograph of a boy reading a Superman comic book
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Video from the Prelinger Archives, hosted on the Internet Archive.
