Propaganda
“The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an
institution, a cause, or a person.”
–Webster’s New Explorer Encyclopedic Dictionary
“The art of inducing people to leap to conclusions without first examining the evidence.”
–Michael Balfour, British Ministry of Information during World War II
ONLINE DATABASES
Academic Search Elite and MasterFILE Premier Access magazine and journal articles.
JSTOR Archived access to scholarly journal articles in many fields, including history.
ProQuest Research Library Access magazine and journal articles.
ONLINE CATALOG
Search for books in the Maple Woods Library online catalog. Click on “Catalog” on the
library homepage at http://mwlibrary.mcckc.edu.
Search the LC subject heading propaganda OR search by keyword using your topic with
and propaganda; for example, media and propaganda.
Find information on propaganda in books on your subject by using the index. For example,
a book on World War II may include a section on war-time propaganda.
For general information on propaganda, you can find books with the call number 303.375.
SUBJECT GUIDE
For a subject guide to propaganda, click on Subject Guides on the library home page, then
enter “propaganda” in the search box.
SELECTED REFERENCE BOOKS
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303.375 En19
303.375 En19m
809.9335 L712
943.086 M58n
REF 303.375 C89p
REF 303.603 H41t
The Encyclopedia of Propaganda
Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America
The Literature of Propaganda (3 volumes)
Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English Lexicon of the
Language of the Third Reich
See especially the essays “The Tradition of Anti-Jewish Language”
(p. 1-25) and “Nazi-Deutsch: An Ideological Language of
Exclusion, Domination, and Annihilation” (p. 27-46).
Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia,
1500 to the Present
Talking Terrorism: A Dictionary of the Loaded Language of
Political Violence
ON THE WEB
Ad*Access library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess
Over 7,000 ads for products used 1911-1955, plus propaganda in World War II.
FactCheck.org www.factcheck.org
Browse for topics. Monitors the accuracy of political ads, debates, speeches, and
news releases.
Nazi and East German Propaganda www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa
Vast archive of pre-1933, 1933-1945, and 1949-1989 material: speeches, posters,
pamphlets, articles, cartoons, training material, and much more.
PolitiFact.com www.politifact.com
Statements made by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists, and interest
groups are rated on the Truth-O-Meter.
Propaganda www.propagandacritic.com
Propaganda techniques explained. Includes wartime propaganda.
What Is Propaganda?
www.historians.org/Projects/GIroundtable/Propaganda/Propaganda_TOC.htm
Defines and explains propaganda in the context of World War II.
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists editorialcartoonists.com
Thousands of cartoons from 1996-present, with some selected earlier years. Search
under Cartoons/Cartoonists tab.
Cartoonist Group www.cartoonistgroup.com Search by subject or cartoonist.
GoComics www.gocomics.com
Click on Editorial Cartoons to view daily listings. Also searchable by artist name
and political slant.
NPR Double Take ‘Toons
www.npr.org
Search “double take toons” in search box.
Find more cartoons in the library’s databases Issues & Controversies and Today’s
Science under Editorial Cartoons & Questions.
The op-ed pages of newspapers often feature editorial cartoons.
For more sites, use your favorite search engine, combining your topic with and
propaganda. For example: World War I and propaganda or political campaigns and
propaganda.
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