Dual Narrative

By kuroli
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    Boston Massacre

    A print done by Paul Revere shows a line of British soldiers firing at an innocent group of Americans.
    This image was distributed to Americans through the newspapers in order to spread the idea that the British were the oppressors.
    This pushed the narrative that the British were cruel and the reason american life was a struggle by showing the british as the oppressors firing at innocent civilians. [image]((https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/content-images/01868p1_1.jpg))
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    Civil War - southern perspective

    [image]((https://www.battlefields.org/sites/default/files/styles/resource_hero/public/fugituve-slave-act.jpg?h=6d4a7210&itok=tnrn80cP))
    A news article with the title "THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW"
    This article was printed when the fugitive slave law went into effect, allowing private police to hunt down runaway slaves.
    This contradicts that the civil war was started over slavery by showing one way that the US was willing to compromise over the issue of slavery in order to keep peace in the nation
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    African Americans in reconstruction Era (Jim Crow Laws)

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    Two water fountains, the one for white people in considerably better shape and quality than the one labeled colored.
    This served to further segregate by race because people of different races could not even drink the same water.
    Even after the civil war, America was segregated by jim crow laws that limited everything someone did from drinking water to going to the movies by race.
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    Roaring 20's! (Prohibition)

    [image]((https://cdn.britannica.com/63/116463-050-27BE2871/John-A-Leach-New-York-City-agents-1920.jpg))
    An image depicting men pouring out a bottle of booze. This image was taken after a raid that confiscated alcohol during the prohibition.
    Events such as this contradict the popular narrative that the 1920s were just a time of partying and drinking.
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    Pearl Harbor (traditional narrative)

    [image[((https://www.gohawaii.com/sites/default/files/hero-unit-images/Pearl%20Harbor%20Memorial%20Aerial.jpg))
    A memorial on top of a boat sunk by Japanese bombings. It is rectangular, with a roof sloped towards the center.
    This building is a memorial for the lives lost during the pearl harbor bombings.
    This site shows the traditional narrative of how the US joined the second world war by depicting pearl harbor as an attack on a peaceful united states who was not a part of the war.
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    Cold War - Proxy wars

    [image]((https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/proxywarscartoon.png))
    A political cartoon depicting two sides with nuclear bombs and soldiers firing arrows. The nuclear bombs have identical messages saying how they fear retaliation. This sort of image would have been used in newspaper propaganda opposing the proxy wars. The narrative during the proxy wars is that we were too scared to attack one another, but they just didn't attack each other directly, but with proxy wars

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    Form: An image depicting a group of political leaders of communist countries meeting around a table.
    Function: This image shows the warsaw pact being signed, which solidified a communist defense, with the soviet union at the head.
    Narrative: The traditional narrative was that the US was waging a war against communism but the soviet union had nuclear weapons the US was afraid of. This shows that it was not just the soviet union, but rather a group of communist states.