Ours... to fight for: Freedom from Fear
Poster version of Norman Rockwell's painting: parents tuck two children into bed while the father holds a folded newspaper, a doll on the floor, under the headline 'Ours... to fight for' and the title 'Freedom from Fear'. The appeal is to the ideal of a safe home, with the newspaper as a faint fear-appeal.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Norman Rockwell; Office of War Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Norman Rockwell; Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-224 (NAID 513666).
Text on the object
OURS... to fight for FREEDOM FROM FEAR [newspaper, partly legible:] BOMBINGS [illegible] [signature, partly legible:] NORMAN ROCKWELL [imprint, not legible]
