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- Title
Humour, neutrality, and preparedness: American satirical magazines and the First World War, 1914–1917.
- Authors
Trott, Vincent
- Abstract
This article discusses how American satirical magazines responded to the First World War while the United States remained a neutral power. By focusing on these previously overlooked sources, it demonstrates that satirical humour performed two significant functions. First, it acted as a tool of persuasion through which magazines agitated for or against American intervention in the conflict. Second, it became a major means with which periodicals sought to ostracize German-Americans, fuelling nativist sentiment. Ultimately, satirical magazines suggest that while responses to the war were initially diverse, most Americans had come to support military intervention by April 1917.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WORLD War I; NEUTRALITY; PREPAREDNESS; INTERVENTION (International law)
- Publication
War in History, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 1, p104
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0968344520944205