1. Temporal context and also contrasting perspectives
1.1. Present and v. near future USA Military Wartime: Japan = enemy
1.1.1. Purpose: to inspire patriotism, hatred, and action in the audience to serve a political agenda.
1.1.1.1. only includes as much truth as useful
1.1.1.2. emotional appeals
1.1.1.3. patriotism
1.2. Future: hindsight Academic USA Military Peace w. Japan- Victor, ally
1.2.1. Purpose: to inform (and influence) the audience.
1.2.1.1. Influences audience
1.2.1.2. first hand accounts
1.2.1.3. some pictures
1.3. Medium
1.3.1. Paper
1.3.1.1. distribution method
1.3.2. Internet
1.3.2.1. Influences audience
2. Audience
2.1. Audience: students, historians, people interested in history or WWII or Japan or the Philippines or war or war crimes
2.1.1. educated
2.1.1.1. does not attempt to be verbally simple to broaden the audience
2.1.1.2. statistics
2.1.1.3. citations
2.1.1.4. analysis
2.1.2. may live now or in the future
2.1.2.1. does not assume audience has background info they would if they were from this time period
2.1.3. it may not be a big deal if not many people read the article
2.1.3.1. lack of guaranteed stylistic finesse
2.1.4. audience has to choose to read it, and search for it
2.1.4.1. attempts more complete and dense truth given the fair assumption that the audience wants to learn about the matter.
2.1.5. paragraphs
2.1.6. titles
2.2. Audience: a tool
2.2.1. Design differences What people find persuasive
2.2.1.1. stylistic choices
2.2.1.2. racism
2.2.2. doesn't necessarily seek out writing
2.2.3. primarily meant to live soon after release of the poster
2.2.3.1. historians and I are an unintended audience
2.2.4. as many Americans as possible
2.2.4.1. any education level
2.2.4.1.1. simple sentences
2.2.4.1.2. obvious message
2.2.4.1.3. commonly known topic matter
2.2.4.2. eye catching visuals
2.2.4.3. bold text
3. Conclusion- evaluate purposes and the value of each thing and also the value of studying it.
3.1. Propaganda Posters
3.2. Historic Articles
3.2.1. How has our understanding of what history is and how it should be studied changed?