Sometimes referred to as the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. Between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians were murdered, with many more forcibly expelled from the region. Over the last century, there has been resistance to the universal recognition of these mass killings as a genocide; the United States formally recognized the Armenian Genocide in December 2019.
Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Revolution and genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust (1992) by Robert Melson ISBN-13: 978-0226519913
Armenian Village Life before 1914 (1982) by by Susie Hoogasian Villa and Mary Kilbourne Villa ISBN-13: 978-0814317006
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response (2003) by Peter Balakian ISBN-13: 978-0060198404
“They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide (2017) by Ronald Grigor Suny ISBN-13: 978-0691175966
Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 (2010) by Grigoris Balakian ISBN-13: 978-1400096770
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924 (2019) by Benny Morris ISBN-13: 978-0674916456
Sad Days of Light (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) (1993) by Peter Balakian ISBN-13: 978-0887481604
The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History (2011) by Raymond Kévorkian ISBN-13: 978-1848855618
Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian Genocide (2017) by Henry Morgenthau ISBN-13: 978-1521766200
Surviving the Forgotten Genocide: An Armenian Memoir (2020) by John Minassian ISBN-13: 978-1538133705
Grit and Grace in a World Gone Mad: Humanitarianism in Talas, Turkey 1908-1923 (2018) by Wendy Elliott ISBN-13: 978-1909382442
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