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Jeannette Rankin, First Woman in the United States Congress

Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) is often remembered primarily for being the first woman elected into the U.S. Congress. However, her…

Tags: Congress, Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin, Montana, Pacifism, War, Women

YWCA, United War Work Campaign Poster, Library of Congress, 1917 or 1918

Poster advertising the United War Work Campaign. It reads, "If you only knew! How much joy your dollars bring 'over there' you'd GIVE and GIVE and…

Tags: Posters, United War Work Campaign, War, War Relief, Woodrow Wilson, World War I

United States Department of Treasury, Keep Us Flying! Buy U.S. War Bonds, United States Department of Treasury, 1943

"If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him—it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in…

Tags: Propaganda, War, War Bonds

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, None

The modern age of powered flight began in 1903 when Orville Wright made the first sustained, powered flight on December 17 in a plane he and his…

Tags: FAA, Flying, Security, War

The American Red Cross, Volunteer for Red Cross Motor Corps, National Archives, 1941-1945

Posters such as these were created by the American Red Cross to recruit volunteers during wartime.

The Motor Corps consisted of 45,000 women who…

Tags: American Red Cross, Health, Motor Corps, Volunteerism, War, Women

SALT, Masuda Sultan, Advocate and Entrepreneur, SALT, Unknown

From Wikipedia: Masuda Sultan is an Afghan American entrepreneur and international human rights advocate. She is the author of My War at Home, a…

Tags: Advocacy, Afghan-American, Afghan-American. Afghanistan. Women. War. Civilians. Women’s Rights., Civilians, Entrepreneur, War, Women, Women's Rights

Office of War Information domestic photographic units, V-Mail During World War II, Library of Congress, Circa 1942

In both world wars, letter writing was a popular means of improving the morale of troops overseas. During the latter years of World War II, V-mail…

Tags: Postal Service, V-Mail, War, World War II, WWII

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., 1st. African American General in the Regular Army & U.S. Armed Forces, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, No date given

"My own opinion was that blacks could best overcome racist attitudes through achievements, even though those achievements had to take place within the…

Tags: African-Americans, Benjamin O. Davis Sr., General, Military Service, War

National Museum of American History, For Your Country's Sake Today – For Your Own Sake Tomorrow, National Museum of American History., 1944

This poster, created by Steele Savage in 1944, appealed to the patriotism of women aged 20 to 35 to prompt them to enlist in the Women's Army Corps,…

Tags: Campaign, Patriotism, Posters, War, Women, World War II

National Library of Medicine, WHO / Global campaign for violence prevention, WHO, Unknown

The Global Campaign for Violence Prevention promotes the adoption of a public health approach to violence prevention, and provides a platform for…

Tags: Campaign, Public Health, Violence Prevention, VPA, War, WHO