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  • 1 - Uncle Sam’s Khaki University and World War I

  • Masako Hattori, National University of Singapore
  • Book:
    The Age of Youth
    Published online:
    27 May 2025
    Print publication:
    24 April 2025, pp 26-60

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the debates in American society surrounding the conscription of young men, particularly those under the age of majority (age twenty-one), for World War I. Before the war, men under the age of twenty-one had served in the U.S. armed services, but mainly as volunteers. The necessity to establish a selective draft system in 1917 sparked an intense debate in American society about whether minors should be drafted into the military. This chapter also explores how military training programs for soldiers were established on civilian college campuses during the war, most notably the Student Army Training Corps, and how the educational elite played an active role in doing so and established educational institutions as military training sites during wartime.