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BKLYN Centennial: America in the First World War

April 2017 marks the hundred-year-anniversary of the United States' entry into the Great War, also known as the First World War (1914-1918). Learn about how American involvement in the cataclysmic 'war to end all wars' and its aftermath inaugurated a new world-historical role for the U.S. that would later define it as the dominant western power of the twentieth century.

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The deluge
Adam Tooze.
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World War I and America
A. Scott Berg, editor.
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America and the Great War
Margaret E. Wagner ; introduction by David M. Kennedy ; Athena Angelos, picture editor.
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Paris 1919
Margaret MacMillan.
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First over there
Matthew J. Davenport.
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The path to war
Michael S. Neiberg.
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Five lieutenants
James Carl Nelson.
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Rock of the Marne
Stephen L. Harris.
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The war that used up words
Hazel Hutchison.
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