North Hunterdon High School Media Center

Propaganda

General encyclopedias may give you background information on your subject.

Books on your subject:

327.14 S    Sorensen, Thomas C., 1926-.  The word war; : the story of  American propaganda,.  [1st ed.].  New York, : Harper & Row,  [1968].

709.43 A   Adam, Peter.  Art of the Third Reich.  New York : H.N Abrams, 1992.

741.5909 H  Hoff, Syd, 1912-.  Editorial and political cartooning : from earliest times to the present, with over 700 examples from  the works of the world's greatest cartoonists.  New York :  Stravon Educational Press, c1976.

796.4 B   Barry, James P.  The Berlin Olympics, 1936 : Black American  athletes counter Nazi propaganda.  New York : F. Watts, 1975.  Discusses the background and significance of events of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, emphasizing the effect of the black American athletes' victories on Hitler's theories of Nordic supremacy.

796.48 B   Bachrach, Susan D., 1948-.  The Nazi Olympics : Berlin 1936.  1st ed.  Boston : Little, Brown, c2000.  Recounts the story of the Olympics held in Berlin in 1936, and how the Nazis attempted to turn the games into a propaganda tool for their cause.

940.54 F   Fussell, Paul, 1924-.  Wartime : understanding and behavior in the Second World War.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

 940.54 R   Rhodes, Anthony Richard Ewart.  Propaganda : the art of persuasion in World War II.  New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c1976.

  940.54 R  Roetter, Charles.  The art of psychological warfare, 1914-1945. New York : Stein and Day, 1974.

  943.08 6 DUD    The Nazis.  San Diego, CA : Greenhaven, 2002.  Presents discussions, background and political cartoons focusing on Nazi Germany through the end of World War II.

973.91 M  McElvaine, Robert S., 1947-.  The Depression and New Deal : a  history in documents.  New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.  A collection of documents that provide insight into  the realities of American life during the Great Depression, including song lyrics, magazine articles, murals and posters, excerpts from literary works, political cartoons, news stories, photographs, interviews, and letters.

 VT 301.15 A   Art with a message : protest and propaganda.  Mt. Kisco, NY :  Center for Humanities, c1990.  pt. 1. Protest and propaganda  (19 min.) -- pt. 2. Satire and social comment (15 min.). Shows how art has been used as a vehicle for propaganda and protest, as seen in such things as Mussolini paintings andsymbol of the clenched fist. Describes the power of art to persuade through distortion. Tells how wars, governments, legislators, and political systems have been dealt with satirically in art. Provides examples from the paintings of Daumier, Hogarth, and Shahn and from the literary works of Dickens, Swift, and Orwell.

 

INTERNET SITES:

BBC World War Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml

General Propaganda Site
http://www.propagandacritic.com/

German Posters
http://www.earthstation1.com/German_Propaganda_Posters.html

German Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

Government Information Center World War II Propaganda 
http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/mapsandposters/wwiipost.html

National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

Nazi Propaganda: 1933 – 1945
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm

Posters from the WPA – American Memory (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/highlight7.html

Produce For Victory - Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/index.htm

Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm

Propaganda Leaflets of World War II
http://www.cobweb.nl/jmoonen/main.htm

World War II Poster Collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/

World War II Posters – UK
 
www.ww2poster.co.uk/

World War II Propaganda
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWII.html#Propaganda

World War II Propaganda Posters (Stanford Doctoral Student – Hobby)
http://hci.stanford.edu/~mmorten/propaganda/wwii/

World War II Songs
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/ww2.html#top

WWII Propaganda - Cartoons, Films, Music & Art
 
www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm

 


 

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