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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