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First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… declared with 1.5 million Armenians killed. He named it a genocide. This is something Armenian expatriates have wanted … rocky relationship, so be it. A spade is a spade. This is a genocide. He's extended the new stars treaty with the … to make the declarations, like labeling the Armenian genocide or issuing a state about the Floyd case. We're …

A Century of Sanctions

… across America in response to Armenian and Assyrian genocides during World War I ( right ). The British blockade …
A group of Turkish refugees from 1913 standing in a group outside

The Treaty of Lausanne and the End of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire’s collapse unfolded over years of war, upheaval, and ethnic conflict. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne recognized the new Republic of Turkey, redrew the region’s political order, and helped shape the modern Middle East.
… War I, devastated the empire, contributed to the Armenian genocide, shattered long-standing multiethnic coexistence, …
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America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight

When you “pair the intellect with emotion and place,” what often results is a moment of insight: an unexpected instance where you suddenly understand something deeper about history, about nature, about others, about yourself.
… the dispossession of Native American land, cultural genocide, the extension of slavery, centuries of conflict …
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.

“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force

Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… “empire.” Benjamin Madley, Jeffrey Ostler, and others saw “genocide” in the destruction of native peoples. In Paul …
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War and Geopolitics in the Middle East: Today & Yesterday

… warfare, ISIS, Central Asia and Afghanistan, the Armenian Genocide, Israel and Jerusalem, and the Hajj, among many … (ISIS) The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War On the Armenian Genocide Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks … Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question (Podcast) The Terrors of Suicide Bombing …
Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

… under almost all circumstances; intervening to stop genocide is one of the few, controversial, exceptions. In …
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick Book Cover.

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Review of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick (New York, Viking Press 2006)
… the brunt of what Philbrick has labeled a "European-style genocide" (179). The overwhelming brutality of this conflict …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… Criminal Court has indicted Omar al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Can you … roaming in the city of Khartoum. The result was a massive genocide which the United Nation described it as the worst …