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PS 522 Week 3: Disinformation in U.S. History Prior to World War II

George Washington tells A lie by Huggins, B.
Journal of the American Revolution (January, 2017)
George Washington was a master of deception. by Zegart, A.
The Atlantic, 2018.
America was founded on secrets and lies. by Knott, S.
ForeignPolicy.com (February, 2016).
Misinformation, disinformation, and Gen. Washington’s gunpowder supply. by Bell, J.L.
Journal of the American Revolution (August, 2014)
Revolutionary fake news: George Washington’s war against lies. by Cook, J.
GenealogyBank.com (April 2022).
Founding fathers used fake news, racial fear-mongering to unite colonies during the American Revolution, new book reveals. by Parkinson, R.
Binghamton University (January, 2017).
Terrorism, fake news, and the American Revolution by Robbins, J.
Humanities.org (2017).

Week 3: The American Civil War

Fake news, dirty tricks, and Civil War politics. by Gallman, J. Matthew
JournalOfTheCivilWarEra.org (October, 2021).
How Abraham Lincoln confronted—and helped spread—political misinformation. by Mitchell, E.
Time.com (October, 2020).
The Civil War hoax that almost took down the Union. by Mitchell, E.
Crimereads.com(October, 2020).
Lincoln’s Lie: A true Civil War caper through fake news. Wall Street, and the White House.
Archives.gov (November, 2020). Video Only.
Hoodwinked during America’s Civil War: Confederate military deception,
HistoryNet.com (2006).
The greatest deception of the American Civil War: The dummy ironclad.
House of History (November, 2020).

Week 3: World War I

How the US Government used propaganda to sell Americans on World War I. by O'Toole, P
History.com (January, 2022).
The corpse factory and the birth of fake news.
BBC.com (February, 2017).
How Great Britain’s secret disinformation campaign paid off in World War I. by Ernsberger, R. Jr.
MHQ-The Quarterly Journal of Military History (April, 2019).

Week 3: World War I — The Zimmermann Telegram (A suspected fraud that turned out to be true)

Why was the Zimmermann telegram so important? by Corera, G.
BBC.com (January, 2017).
National WWI museum and memorial, “Zimmermann telegram: Germany’s secret proposal to Mexico, discovered.
U.S. National Archives, “Zimmermann Telegram (1917).
How one telegram helped to lead America toward war by Bomboy, S.
ConstitutionCenter.org (February, 2022).
The Zimmermann Telegram. by National Security Agency.
Cryptologic Quarterly (n.d.).

Week 3: Miscellaneous (Early America)

What the 1700s teach us about today’s fake news. Epidemic by Tieleman, M.
WorldCrunch.com (May, 2019).
The history of ‘Fake News’ in America. by Yuan, K. & Peterson, M.
TheAtlantic.com (January 2018).
The age-old problem of ‘Fake News’: It’s been part of the conversation as far back as the birth of the free press. by Mansky, J.
SmithsonianMag.com (May, 2018).