Overview
This website will analyze Civil War political cartoons and World War I and II propaganda posters. The posters are categorized by and interpreted through the themes of race thinking, representation of women, and the role of economics.
My research will reveal that propaganda was used to both enforce and resist social norms.
The website and research have two goals with these themes. First, to analyze the propaganda pieces from a zoomed-in perspective. Every war in the menu above has at least one piece of propaganda that shows each theme. These materials reflect social values at the time of their war.
Second, to analyze the propaganda and themes over time. The “Timelines” page in the menu above covers these themes individually. The timelines put the propaganda into context with legislation and current events to show the interaction between propaganda, politics, public opinion, and social values.
Project by Mav Schmidt
Gettysburg College, Musselman Library Fortenbaugh Digital Humanities Fellowship
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
