The Christian Holocaust: How the Armenian Genocide Became the First Great Atrocity of the 20th Century

Armenian Genocide

Historic New York Times headline from September 10, 1895, reading “Another Armenian Holocaust,” reporting on burned Armenian villages and anti-Christian violence in the Ottoman Empire.

The Christian Holocaust: How the Armenian Genocide Became the First Great Atrocity of the 20th Century

Before the world learned to name evil with the word Holocaust, the term was already used to describe the annihilation of a Christian people — the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire. In the early 20th century, journalists, missionaries, and diplomats referred to what they witnessed as a Christian holocaust, a catastrophe of biblical scale that […]

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Portrait of poet Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of New York Trilogy, photographed in New York.

Peter Balakian’s New York Trilogy Explores Memory, History, and the Armenian Experience

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Peter Balakian has released his latest work, New York Trilogy, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book-length poem unfolds across three interconnected sections, tracing a journey through decades of personal and collective transformation—from the turbulence of the late 1960s to the complexities of the twenty-first century. Through Balakian’s distinctive, elliptical

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