This exhibit is the product of a History Department seminar that was developed in collaboration with the University’s Burns Library. The course encouraged students to consider how governments used a variety of media including posters as propaganda when recruiting for the Great War. Undergraduates examined multiple sources including personal memoirs and diaries from the Burns Library Special Collection and World War I posters from the Boston Athenaeum to examine how the war was ‘sold’ or marketed to recruits and the general public. In the exhibit students contrast this propaganda with the stark reality that awaited soldiers once they became combatants in ’the war to end all wars’.
History Dept, Stokes Hall Exhibit
The History Department in Stokes Hall features exhibits collaborated with the Boston College Libraries for the course HS600 Making History Public. The exhibits change each semester.
Propaganda & the Great War
a Making History Public exhibit
September - December, 2016
Sponsored by the History Department & the Boston College Libraries
This exhibit is the product of a History Department seminar that was developed in collaboration with the University’s Burns Library. The course encouraged students to consider how governments used a variety of media including posters as propaganda when recruiting for the Great War. Undergraduates examined multiple sources including personal memoirs and diaries from the Burns Library Special Collection and World War I posters from the Boston Athenaeum to examine how the war was ‘sold’ or marketed to recruits and the general public. In the exhibit students contrast this propaganda with the stark reality that awaited soldiers once they became combatants in ’the war to end all wars’.