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Associate Professor of History, Florida State University

Doughboys fighting in France, 1917. Associated Press

November 5, 2019

Commemorating the ‘Great War,’ America’s forgotten conflict

G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University

It was ‘the Good War,’ the ‘war to end all wars.’ So why has World War I been largely forgotten by Americans?

During the war, the poster on the left, painted by J. Howard Miller, was on display for only two weeks. Norman Rockwell’s, on the other hand, was seen by millions. Nick Lehr/The Conversation

May 25, 2018

How one ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster won out over all the others and became a symbol of female empowerment

Sarah Myers, Saint Francis University and G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University

During the war, few Americans actually saw the ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster that’s become a cultural icon.

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