propaganda

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• 3/21/2021
  

  The Same Mistakes Twice? Teaching Dr. Seuss

  by Walter Kamphoefner

  Step back from the current media controversy and consider how Theodor Geisel's cartooning illustrate the contradictory nature of America's posture toward foreign and domestic racism in the World War II era, a pivotal moment for the nation that must be understood in all its complication. 

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  3/10/2021
  

  Eat Like England’s First Non-Royal Ruler With This Propaganda-Filled Cookbook

  Anti-Cromwell sentiments during the Restoration era ran high, and royalists used every possible venue to attack the Lord Protector's legacy. 

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  2/4/2021
  

  Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda

  by Jason Stanley

  Not enough attention has been paid to the video shown to spectators at Donald Trump's January 6th "Save America" rally. A close look shows it to be a work of propaganda firmly in the tradition of fascism. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Where Will the Culture of Internet Attacks Lead? Nazi Opponent Friedrich Kellner's Diaries Offer Warnings

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  The diary of a German Social Democrat and local official who observed and opposed the Third Reich offers a warning about today's unleashed online anger. 

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• SOURCE: National Archives (UK)
  8/10/2020
  

  Depicting Japan in British propaganda of the Second World War

  The outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Japan exposed the ignorance and indifference of many Britons to Japan. The British Ministry of Information responded with "creative and aggressive propaganda about the Japanese enemy." 

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• SOURCE: History
  6/16/2020
  

  The Secret British Campaign to Persuade the U.S. to Enter WWII

  Henry Hemming writes that British intelligence services planted made-up episodes of heroic military raids on Nazi-occupied Europe and fabricated Nazi plans to invade South America to try to overcome prevailing isolationist sentiments among Americans. 

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• 12/29/19
  

  Barbarous Hun: The Sinking of the Lusitania and the Rise of Propaganda

  by Albinko Hasic

  British and U.S. war advocates quickly turned the tragedy into pro-war propaganda and created everything from postcards, to medals, to posters.

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• 6/2/19
  

  Depicting the Devil: How Propaganda Posters Portrayed Nazi Ideology

  by Albinko Hasic

  The poster became a cheap transmitter of these various messages and combined visual arts with psychological methods to incessantly repeat Nazi ideologies to the German public. 

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Propaganda Posters That Won The U.S. Home Front

  by Albinko Hasic

  Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9-20-18
  

  Learning the Power of Lies

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  Facts vs. Falsehoods in the Age of Trump

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-13-18
  

  Lessons from White House disinformation a century ago: ‘It’s dangerous to believe your own propaganda’

  by John Maxwell Hamilton andMeghan Menard McCune

  One hundred years ago, the U.S. government published documents that fueled the mounting Red Scare, helped justify the American military invasion of Russia and poisoned American-Russian relations for years to come.

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• 6/21/18 (date accessed)
  

  Video of the Week: The Nazi Propaganda Film that Compared Jews to Rats

  The film was created in 1940 as the persecution of the Jews in nazi Germany escalated.

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• 11-29-17
  

  Trump’s Demonization of Muslims Echoes a Dark Chapter in German History

  by Richard E. Frankel

  His tweeting of anti-Muslim videos could very well have real-world consequences.

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• 11-26-17
  

  We’ve Been the Victims of Foreign Propaganda Before

  by Nicholas O'Shaughnessy

  In a class of their own were the Nazis.

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• 12-3-17
  

  East Europeans Who Lived Under Communism Know All About Fake News

  by Vlad B. Jecan

  These are some of the lessons they learned.

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• 4-16-17
  

  When Propaganda Wasn’t Viewed with Alarm

  by George Larrimore and Willy Bearden

  The World War 2 film that made the Memphis Belle famous (and also helped sell war bonds).

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  3-26-16
  

  America’s First Minister of Propaganda

  by Gil Troy

  George Creel was so talented, he got Americans to support a war they had just voted against.

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• SOURCE: UPI
  3-26-16
  

  Video of the Week: North Korea propaganda video depicts Washington, D.C., nuclear attack

  by Daniel Uria

  The video features a history of "humiliating defeats" suffered by the United States in the history of its relations with North Korea followed by an image of a submarine-launched nuclear missile striking the Capitol building in Washington.

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• 10-25-15
  

  The Federal Government’s Information Machine

  by Kevin R. Kosar and John Maxwell Hamilton

  The use of our tax dollars to shape our views is too important to be left in the dark shadows of government.

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• 4-13-14
  

  Why It's Time to Stop Complaining about Politicians Spinning Us (Interview)

  by David Greenberg

  We complain about spin when the other side's doing a good job.