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AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR I – WORLD WAR I IN AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2018

Manfred Berg  and
Axel Jansen
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Special Issue: Americans and WWI: 100 Years Later
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 599 - 607
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2018 

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Footnotes

We would like to thank Martin Hamre for his research support in preparing the introduction. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions for improving this special issue.

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