The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition. One section of the exhibition made me pause: a hallway-like area ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of three black and white Japanese language psychological warfare propaganda leaflets (Nos. 2094, 2097, and 2101) designed ...
Twenty-five-year-old Iva Toguri, born and raised in Los Angeles, found herself trapped in Japan when that country bombed Pearl Harbor, bringing the U.S. into World War II. Forced into service as a ...
Take a historical journey to explore the history of World Wars I and II through the lens of the artists who translated war posters into community-influencing propaganda. For centuries, emotionally ...
Germans first heard details of the allied landing on D-Day on June 6 th, 1944 at 4.50 AM on the armed forces radio station Soldatensender Calais. “The enemy is landing with force from the air and from ...
Betty MacDonald, Zuzka Lauwers, Jane Smith-Hutton, and the actress Marlene Dietrich all worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II under the leadership of an iconoclast, Wild Bill ...
The legend of Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician who helped hide Allied military installations during World War II, has likely been embellished beyond his actual accomplishments.
LEWISBURG — Mae Krier, 99, a surviving Rosie the Riveter from World War II will tell her story — one that reflects on the powerful role of women from the 1940s until now — at 1 p.m. Sunday at Campus ...