Reinventing Historical Propaganda Through Memes

 

Providing hands-on challenges and tasks in History classes can be difficult; sure, economic simulations, debates,  and reenactments of significant events can all “juice” up a lesson or unit, but as a Social Studies minor, I encountered a lot more discussion and lecture-based History courses that I’d like to admit. So in the vein of my Hunting Trolls in History assignment that I created longer ago than I realized, I decided to “one up” today’s ds106 Daily Create, and craft a quick activity that any History teacher could use with students.

I’ve always been fascinated with historical propaganda; in a way, they represent the cultural “memes” of the pre-digital era; often imagery created to convey certain political stances was crude, the humor dark, and production value low, the same qualities that describe your typical “ain’t no one got time for that” memes. I found the image below to be a rather horrific joke made by the anti-suffragette movement here in the United States before women were granted the right to vote.

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