In the 1950s, the US automobile industry was lobbying hard to get more funding for roads and highways. Part of this effort included propaganda targeted to the general public. US strikes on Iran ‘less ...

This breakdown of the 1954 GM propaganda film "Give Yourself the Green Light" uncovers how the post-war highway boom was marketed as a symbol of freedom and progress. Through a critical lens, the ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda.

Why women who dress up as 1950s homemakers are driving the internet insane.

A white paper released recently by the Chinese Communist Party contains the usual admixture of self-aggrandizement and self-victimization.

Propaganda posters, like advertisements, are often strikingly beautiful and moving. After all, they are designed to be persuasive. And the 1950s, the height of the Cold War between communism and ...

A Guy's Guide to Zombies is an awesome animated short done in the style of 1950's propaganda newsreel advising the average American how to safely live in a post-Z-day apocalypse. Zombies are ...

By working for the CIA, a crack team of researchers honed the United States’ first formal peacetime campaign of propaganda and manipulation.

A recent series of comics that appeared on Sina Weibo show the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda comics in 1950, depicting China 60 years later, i.e., in 2010.

An image supposedly showing a "Beware of Artists" poster issued during the 1950s by Joseph McCarthy, a U.S. senator known for making accusations of treason and spreading fears of communism, is ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda.