Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen – Christopher Capozzola

On March 12, 2017, our lecture series, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of World War I, featured Christopher Capozzola, who teaches courses in political and legal history, war and the military, and the history of international migration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author of Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford University Press, June 2008), Dr. Capozzola specializes in the political and cultural history of the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. He graduated from Harvard College and completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2002.