America’s involvement in the First World War was brief, but intense. For a period of 20 months, the government did its best to stir patriotic fervor, in part through the use of eye-catching propaganda ...

“Why We Fight” is a series of seven documentary films commissioned by the United States government to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later they were shown ...

The Great War gave rise for the first time to propaganda circulated around the world. Unlike previous wars, however, it was the first time that armies from nations around the globe were locked in ...

The expression “loose lips sink ships,” has become part of the American popular lexicon, almost as common as other expressions such as “going cold Turkey,” or “pitching in.” Despite its humorous ...

As North Korea's supreme leader makes a show of abandoning all efforts at a formal detente with Seoul, state media in Pyongyang this week published a series of patriotic posters targeting the United ...