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The Spanish–American War (April–August 1898) is considered to be both a turning point in the history of propaganda and the beginning of the practice of yellow journalism. It was the first conflict in which military action was precipitated by media involvement.
The Junta used the American press as a device to distribute propaganda on Spanish rule in Cuba, fostering support among American citizens. [1] The deciding factor that sent the United States into the Spanish-American War was the publication of the De Lôme Letter [2] by the revolutionaries of the Cuban Junta. [3]
"Yellow journalism" cartoon about the Spanish–American War of 1898. The newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are both attired as the Yellow Kid comics character of the time, and are competitively claiming ownership of the war.
The Bounding Billow was a sailor-written newspaper published aboard the USS Olympia from 1897 to 1898. Although it has received little scholarly attention, the newspaper documented key historical events in the Spanish–American War (April 25, 1898–August 12, 1898), as well as cultural aspects of life in the U.S. Navy [1]
Propaganda of the Spanish–American War; References This page was last edited on 26 November 2022, at 18:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Lancaster paid tribute to its war veterans with a parade and a brief ceremony. Honored in 1962 were three men from Fairfield County who fought in the Spanish American-War.
In 1904, the United Spanish War Veterans was created from smaller groups of the veterans of the Spanish–American War. The organization has been defunct since 1992 when its last surviving member Nathan E. Cook a veteran of the Philippine-American war died, but it left an heir in the Sons of Spanish–American War Veterans, created in 1937 at ...
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