The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition. One section of the exhibition made me pause: a hallway-like area ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of three black and white Japanese language psychological warfare propaganda leaflets (Nos. 2094, 2097, and 2101) designed ...

Take a historical journey to explore the history of World Wars I and II through the lens of the artists who translated war posters into community-influencing propaganda. For centuries, emotionally ...

Betty MacDonald, Zuzka Lauwers, Jane Smith-Hutton, and the actress Marlene Dietrich all worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II under the leadership of an iconoclast, Wild Bill ...

Whether they belonged to people who were close to us or were collected by complete strangers, someone famous, or someone who lived a seemingly common life, collections and artifacts left behind offer ...

Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...

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The legend of Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician who helped hide Allied military installations during World War II, has likely been embellished beyond his actual accomplishments.