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Revolution, Suffrage and Civil Rights - Learn more about global shifts in society in the early 20th century.

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Explore the participation of the United States in World War I, and how the war forever changed America.

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World War I changed everything, including how humanity expressed itself through the culture and arts of the time.

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“We Come as Liberators” - Britain’s Middle East Campaigns, 1917 - John Calvert

1917 is the year during which the tide turned against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

The Armenian Genocide: Origins, Factors and Repercussions - Bedross Der Matossian

The arrest of 250 Armenians in April of 1915 was the start of a massacre. That massacre helped inform the creation of a new word, genocide, in 1944. Join Dr.

WWI Changed US: How the Philippines Shaped America’s First World War – Chris Capozzola

Join historian Christopher Capozzola as he reveals the forgotten history of the military relationship between the U.S.

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