Military propaganda in USA periodicals in 1916-1917

The study is devoted to a topical issue of defining the role of the American press in the military propaganda of 1916-1917. Periodicals are original historical sources, allowing the researchers to introduce new data and create a link between individual events of the USA military history reflected in various sources of the first half of the 20th century. This paper studies the USA periodicals as sources of military propaganda in 1916-1917. The study is based on the materials of American newspapers published in 1916-1917 such as New York Tribune and The New York Times, established in 1840-1850-ies, and Washington Post. These newspapers are located on the official website of the Library of Congress and contain the information about the views of the USA public authorities and American society concernting the USA involvement in the World War I. When working with the research materials, the author used general scientific methods, such as description, analysis, comparison, as well as with special methods of historical research, including historical and comparative method, cultural and semiotic approach...