While most of the Red Cross posters of nurses can be analyzed or read in distinctly gendered ways, there is a subset that carries clear references to imagery from religious art.
During this week's office hours, Richard D. Deverell, the Library's Swann Foundation Fellow, 2019-2020, will examine the history of censorship in postwar America, focusing on the Comics Code Authority and the regulation of comic books.
The Red Cross posters of nurses from WWI are complex images rife with gendered implications and imagery. These images contrast not only against the social movement of feminism happening at the time, but also each other.
Join us for virtual Office Hours on Tuesday August 11 and 18 at 2pm ET. During office hours you have the opportunity to hear a brief presentation and ask questions of some of the Library of Congress curatorial staff.
Rebecca Newland, a former Teacher in Residence and contributor to the Teachers Page blog and the Poetry and Literature Center blog reflects on her interactions with the late congressman John Lewis. She notes that by talking about Lewis and his work with young people, we can keep alive the spirit of compassion and non-violence he espoused.