By this time the American people have probably become convinced that the Germans deliberately planned the conquest of the world. Yet they hesitate to convict on circumstantial evidence and for…

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By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was beginning to dissolve. Upon seeing this weakness, Germany set its own plans into action in the capital of Constantinople-to bring the vast…

The evocative, first-hand accounts of American ambassador Henry Morgenthau regarding the Armenian genocide are one of the most thorough, authoritative sources on the atrocities. This book contains the full accounts…

Poetry. The poems in A SUNDAY IN PURGATORY combine memoir, reflections on aging, sexuality, and wrestling with the tension that exists between being part of a famous American family and…

A fascinating exploration of early- to mid-twentieth-century political and social structure as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat.

Originally published in 1918, this is the memoir of Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire who not only documented but also tried to stop the genocide of…