"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...

As our nation moves ever deeper into an information war in which our commander in chief regularly accuses respected media outlets of peddling “fake news,” it is oddly appropriate that there is a ...

When we hear the word “propaganda” today, North Korea, communist China and even ISIS spring to mind. It’s easy to forget that posters, ad campaigns and movies have been used to win over the hearts and ...

The unfolding story of the Russian Internet Research Agency’s campaign to disrupt the 2016 U.S. elections calls to mind a previous episode when a hostile foreign power weaponized a new and powerful ...

Americans at home must avoid at all cost discussing information that could be used by the enemy. Speaking about the movements of ships seen from shore or the location of where family and friends ...

In the aftermath of the weekend’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, scores of Americans wondered how they should respond to the hate-fueled violence that left three people dead and ...

The Brandeis University World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection includes nearly 100 different images (a majority from the WWI era) addressing a variety of American war aims. The ...