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Written by Jamie L. Lathan
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This "Rock the Vote" poster for John Drury, candidate for the Iowa Senate in 2004 drew on the popular "Rock the Vote" campaign, in which popular musicians like Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, encouraged young people to vote in the presidential election. Even in Clear Lake, Iowa, political candidates were using mass media and youth culture to gain more votes.
This political poster can be found at the following blog site: http://www.blogforiowa.com/blog/Candidates/_archives/2004/9
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Written by Jamie L. Lathan
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This poster is located on the "American Feast" website--a site devoted to providing a selection of specialty foods from all regions of the United States with an emphasis on food from sustainable farms rather than food processed in factories. The poster above was in the blog section of the site entitled, "conservation." It seems to be a poster designed in the model of the World War I and World War II propaganda posters in the U. S.
The poster can be found at the following web address: http://blog.americanfeast.com/conservation/
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Written by Jamie L. Lathan
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On January 18, 1996, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the Mexican government reached an agreement at San Andres that stated that the Mexican government would guarantee the political, social, and economic rights of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Battles on behalf of the indigenous people against the Mexican government have been going on for centuries. The Zapitistas are named in honor of Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary hero of the early 20th century.
This image can be found located on Peacebuttons.info a website devoted to the history of peace in the world. website for this site is located at: http://peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjanuary.htm
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Historical Ephemera is a project designed to present ephemera from a variety of historical sources. Wikipedia defines ephemera as “transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved.” We consider ephemera a bit more broadly as materials that were produced for one time or specific short-term use. Such materials were often thought to be of little value when produced. The Ephemera Society of America even maintains a list of ephemera topics, which include the following; advertisements, air transport labels, bank checks, baseball cards, billheads, bonds, bookmarks, bookplates, broadsides, brochures, business cards, calendars, cameo stamps, chromos, cigar box labels & bands, clipper ship cards, die-cuts, greeting cards, indentures, invitations, labels, letters, magazines, maps, newspapers, packaging, pamphlets, paper dolls, passes, photographs, postcards, poster stamps, posters, programs, rewards of merit, seed company ads, Shakers, sheet music, songsters, stocks, tickets, timetables, trade cards, trade catalogs, valentines, watch papers
Each presentation includes a description of materials and when appropriate some consideration for how the items fit within the larger historical context. This site has been designed for students, teachers and anyone interested in past.
This project is a collaborative effort completed by students in a graduate class on digital history at North Carolina State University, spring semester 2009.
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