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The Committee on Public Information (1917–1919), also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States under the Wilson administration created to influence public opinion to support the US in World War I, in particular, the US home front.
The United States School Garden Army (USSGA), was founded by the Bureau of Education [1] [2] in 1917 during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson's. [3] Wilson described gardening as "just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon" [ 4 ] and opined that "food will win the war". [ 5 ]
Come into the garden dad!, World War I poster from Canada (c. 1918), Archives of Ontario poster collection (I0016363)Victory Gardens became popular in Canada in 1917. Under the Ministry of Agriculture's campaign, "A Vegetable Garden for Every Home", residents of cities, towns and villages utilized backyard spaces to plant vegetables for personal use and war eff
Poster with a patriotic theme to save food (1917), issued when domestic food restrictions were applied to support the war effort. The United States Food Administration (1917–1920) was an independent federal agency that controlled the production, distribution, and conservation of food in the U.S. during the nation's participation in World War I.
Kaminski, Joseph Jon. "World War I and Propaganda Poster Art: Comparing the United States and German Cases." Epiphany Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies 2 (2014): 64-81. online; Knightley, Phillip (2002), The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo, Johns Hopkins UP, ISBN 978-0-8018-6951-8
Weapons for Liberty – U.S.A. Bonds, Liberty bond poster by J. C. Leyendecker (1918). During World War I, the United States saw a systematic mobilization of the country's entire population and economy to produce the soldiers, food supplies, ammunitions and money necessary to win the war.
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A call to arms: propaganda, public opinion, and newspapers in the Great War (2004) Silbey, David. The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914–1916 (2005) [ISBN missing] Simmonds, Alan G. V. Britain and World War One (2011) excerpt and text search; Storey, Neil R. Women in the First World War (2010) Swift, David.