Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morganthau’s Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917 [reprint 2017]). Henry Morgenthau (1856-1846) was the United States ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. For those interested in the modern history of Armenia and in America’s evolving relationship... Read more →
February 2019
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The Burning Tigris
Peter Balakian, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (New York: Harper/Collins, 2003). Peter Balakian's book is a moving, deep dive into the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and into the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. In a sense, this... Read more →
02/01/2019
Like Water on Stone
Like Water on Stone (2014) by Dana Walrath is a novel in verse set in 1914, at the beginning of the massacre of thousands of Armenian civilians at the hands of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Walrath renders this extremely bleak period with bold and lyrical magical realism. It is the... Read more →
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