When William Came: A Prophetic Propaganda War

When Asperger's Disorder Came Out.

BACKGROUND In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association removed Asperger's Disorder from the DSM, offering instead the new DSM-5 diagnosis: Autism Spectrum Disorder. This change has been hailed the most controversial exclusion from the DSM, yet unlike the 1973 removal of homosexuality from DSM-III, Asperger's disorder has not been demedicalised. Rather, the disorder has simply been reclassifie...

Propaganda and Protest: Evidence from Post-Cold War Africa∗

Does propaganda reduce the probability of popular protest in Africa’s contemporary autocracies? To answer this question, we draw on an original dataset of state-run newspapers from 21 African countries, encompassing two languages and roughly 600,000 articles. We find that propaganda diminishes the probability of protest, and that its effects persist over time. By increasing the level of pro-reg...

beyond propaganda to explanation in war historigraphy

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Images of Propaganda: World War I and World War II Posters

America's entry into World War I on April 6, 1917 created an immediate need for a large-scale, nationwide publicity campaign such as this country had never before mounted. Posters played an important role in this endeavor and gained widespread use as instruments of propaganda. In the days before the development of electronic media, governments of fighting nations used this eye-catching, visuall...

Sunday morning rounds when the Baptist Church Choir came through.