George Creel is largely forgotten in American history. In the first half of his career, he skipped from Georgism to civic reform activism and journalism; from writing jokes and comics for the Hearst ...

Committee on Public Information poster from 1917 promoting the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. W. D. Stevens/Library of Congress. In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry into ...

George Creel and the Propaganda Machine Jason Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions. Miami University Art Museum Wednesday, March 8, 5:30 pm One week after America declared war on Germany in 1917, President ...

George Creel — the man tasked with selling the Great War to the American people. When Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection in 1916, he did so with the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War.” In 1917, when U.S.

Investigative journalist, politician and American World War I propaganda specialist George Creel owned the Pacific Heights home at 2761 Divisadero St. in the 1930s, according to the 1938-'39 Who's Who ...

Denver Post alum George Greel led the U.S. government's first major propaganda machine—and popularized one of the most famous images of Uncle Sam. President Woodrow Wilson won a second term in 1916 by ...

Less than two weeks after America entered World War I, the Society of Illustrators held a meeting in New York City to examine the ways in which artists might rally to their countryAca,!a,,cs cause.