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  • Freeman Dyson and Project Orion poster image canonical_images/feature/command-and-control-project-orion.jpg XXX Digital Short
    Command and Control | Digital Short

    Freeman Dyson and Project Orion

    Could interplanetary space travel be made possible by harnessing the power of a nuclear bomb? This Retro Report co-production looks at a Cold War attempt to find a new use for the bomb.

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    The Battle of Chosin | Digital Short

    Flight Nurse

    Lillian Kinkela Keil was one of the most decorated women in WWII and the Korean War, with 11 battle stars, four air medals and more than 450 air evacuations in Europe and in Korea.

  • The Boys of '36: Chapter 1 poster image canonical_images/feature/boys-36-chapter-poster.jpg XXX Chapter
    The Boys of '36 | Chapter

    The Boys of '36: Chapter 1

    Watch the opening scene of The Boys of '36.

  • Olympian Profile: Katelin Snyder poster image canonical_images/feature/boys-36-katelin-snyder-poster.jpg XXX Digital Short
    The Boys of '36 | Digital Short

    Olympian Profile: Katelin Snyder

    Katelin Snyder is the coxswain for the U.S. Women's Eight at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

  • The World’s Experience poster image canonical_images/feature/TGW_Wolrds_Exp_640.jpeg XXX Article
    The Great War | Article

    The World’s Experience

    After fighting for democracy overseas in World War I, African American soldiers returned determined to fight for democracy at home.

  • Young Men Enlist poster image canonical_images/feature/3g07547uSMCanonical.jpg XXX Image Gallery
    The Great War | Image Gallery

    Young Men Enlist

    Once the United States issued a declaration of war, the nation faced the daunting task of raising an army of millions—from virtually nothing.

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    The Great War | Image Gallery

    Wake Up America!

    After two and a half years of neutrality, the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. A massive propaganda campaign ensued. 

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    The Great War | Image Gallery

    The Gospel of the Clean Plate

    In December 1917, Herbert Hoover, America’s first Food Administrator, proclaimed “food will win the war.

  • Woman, Your Country Needs You poster image canonical_images/feature/3g09547uSMCanonical.jpg XXX Image Gallery
    The Great War | Image Gallery

    Woman, Your Country Needs You

    During the Great War, women were called to serve in many capacities—both abroad and on the homefront. Propaganda posters took aim directly at those women. 

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    The Great War | Image Gallery

    Nothing Stops These Men

    Woodrow Wilson tapped George Creel to head up the Committee on Public Information, and Creel, in turn, created the Division of Pictorial Publicity, which churned out millions of posters encouraging support of the war.

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    The Great War | Image Gallery

    An Education for You

    "Selling" the Great War to reluctant public fell to the Committe on Public Information. One of its initiatives: millions of propaganda posters. 

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    The Great War | Image Gallery

    Help!

    Propaganda posters during the Great War made a direct appeal to women to serve as nurses.