"Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After
by Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Merrill D Peterson
Category: History

Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union.