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- Many historians refer to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 as the first genocide of the twentieth century. In the context of the first global war, the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire were systematically persecuted and many eliminated while the world watched. Yet today, American memory and conception of the Armenian Genocide is remarkably different from similar historical events such as the Holocaust. The Armenian Genocide and America’s reaction to it is a forgotten event in American memory. In an attempt to better understand this process of forgetting, this thesis analyzes the Washington Post’s news coverage of the Armenian Genocide. By cataloguing, categorizing, and analyzing this news coverage, this thesis suggests Americans had sufficient information about the events and national reaction to it to form a memory. Therefore, the reasons for twenty-first century collective loss of memory in the minds of Americans must be traced to other sources.
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- Book
- Published
- 2009
- Locale
- United States
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130).
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services. 22 cm.
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- English
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- 143 p.
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