"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...
As our nation moves ever deeper into an information war in which our commander in chief regularly accuses respected media outlets of peddling “fake news,” it is oddly appropriate that there is a ...
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 ...
If you lived through the 1930s and 1940s and had an interest in the world around you, you may have been aware that political, military, and media leaders used elements of drama and social psychology ...
The unfolding story of the Russian Internet Research Agency’s campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. elections calls to mind a previous episode when a hostile foreign power weaponized a new and powerful ...
In the aftermath of the weekend’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, scores of Americans wondered how they should respond to the hate-fueled violence that left three people dead and ...
The Brandeis University World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection includes nearly 100 different images (a majority from the WWI era) addressing a variety of American war aims. The ...