Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
History
Date of Award
5-2009
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Melvin E. Page
Committee Members
Stephen G. Fritz, Leila S. Al-Imad, Henry J. Antikiewicz
Abstract
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 analysizing 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.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Jessica L., "Through the Eyes of the Post: American Media Coverage of the Armenian Genocide." (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1862. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1862
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.