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Comic Books & Propaganda on the US Home Front in World War 2
2024-11-07 15:30:00 2024-11-07 16:30:00 America/New_York Comic Books & Propaganda on the US Home Front in World War 2 Learn about comics and their role in domestic propaganda on the US Home Front during World War Two. Presented by Professor James Kimble, Seton Hall University. Lacey Branch -

Thursday, November 07
3:30pm - 4:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-11-07 15:30:00 2024-11-07 16:30:00 America/New_York Comic Books & Propaganda on the US Home Front in World War 2 Learn about comics and their role in domestic propaganda on the US Home Front during World War Two. Presented by Professor James Kimble, Seton Hall University. Lacey Branch -

Learn about comics and their role in domestic propaganda on the US Home Front during World War Two. Presented by Professor James Kimble, Seton Hall University.

Learn about the history comics and their role in domestic propaganda on the US Home Front during World War II. Professor James Kimble will discuss how comics supported mobilization, uplifted morale, and targeted younger audiences to successfully support the war effort. Physical copies of war time comics will be shared to help bring this fascinating history to life.

James J. Kimble (PhD, University of Maryland) is Professor of Communication & the Arts at Seton Hall University. He is an expert on domestic propaganda, war rhetoric, and visual imagery. His research on the World War II era has reached a worldwide media audience of over 1.2 billion people in more than a dozen languages.

He is the author of Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda and Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II, as well as co-editor of The 10¢ War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II and the writer and co-producer of the feature documentary Scrappers: How the Heartland Won World War II.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Discussion | General |

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