Christopher Capozzola is a professor of history, a MacVicar faculty fellow and the senior associate dean for Open Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His teaching focuses on political and legal history, war and the military and the history of international migration. He is the author of Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen and Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century.
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Harry Weinberger
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