Additional Resources for Research

Susan Brewer, Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), chap. 2. This book chapter examines the role of the CPI and other agencies in producing propaganda during World War I.

Julia Irwin, Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), chap. 3. This book chapter examines the role of the American Red Cross in producing propaganda during World War I.

George L. Vogt, “When Posters Went to War: How America's Best Commercial Artists Helped Win World War I,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 84 (Winter 2000–2001): 38–47. This article explains the important role that poster artists played in helping mobilize the American public for war.