Table of Contents

Introduction: Witness to genocide Jay Winter; Part I. The Framework: 1. Twentieth-century genocides Sir Martin Gilbert; 2. Genocide in the perspective of total war Jay Winter; 3. The Armenian genocide: an interpretation Vahakn N. Dadrian; Part II. During the Catastrophe: 4. A friend in power? Woodrow Wilson and Armenia John Milton Cooper; 5. Wilsonian diplomacy and Armenia: the limits of power and ideology Lloyd E. Ambrosius; 6. American diplomatic correspondence in the age of mass murder: documents of the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. Archives Rouben Paul Adalian; 7. The Armenian genocide and American missionary relief efforts Suzanne Moranian; 8. Mary Louise Graffam: witness to genocide Susan Billington Harper; 9. From Ezra Pound to Theodore Roosevelt: American intellectual and cultural responses to the Armenian genocide Peter Balakian; Part III. After the Catastrophe: 10. The Armenian genocide and US postwar commissions Richard G. Hovannisian; 11. Congress confronts the Armenian genocide Donald A. Ritchie; 12. When news is not enough: American media and Armenian deaths Thomas C. Leonard.

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This is an account of the American response to the Armenian genocide of 1915.

About the Author

Jay Winter is Professor of History at Yale University, a former Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the author of many books on the First World War.