I’ve been incommunicado at this blog for some time, since I’ve not been enrolled in a history course this term. (Instead, I’ve been fulfilling a core requirement in Interdisciplinary Studies — a course on wellness, which is surprisingly interesting.) However, I gave an interview a couple of months ago to Matthew Buckley of Adelaide, Australia, …
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Contra Lewy: The Armenian Genocide
In 1996, Gregory H. Stanton, a law professor, former Fulbright scholar, and employee of the United States Department of State, presented a briefing paper in which he promulgated his theory of genocide, which encompassed eight stages. Regarding the eighth stage, Stanton wrote that “every genocide is followed by denial,” and its characteristics range from getting …
Telegraphy and the Armenian Genocide
Of the many inhumane phenomena to arise from the inherent inhumane experience of war, the most inhumane is genocide. At least as understood since the 20th century, genocide is thankfully an infrequent occurrence. The first genocide of the 20th century was that of the Ottoman Armenian population of eastern Anatolia at the hands of the …
Ottoman Entry Into WWI
I’ve begun my next course, this one on World War I. Only five discussion posts in this class, but a longer research agenda is coming soon. ==== Of the countries participating in World War I, perhaps no country was undergoing quite as extensive a shift in national identity at the time as the Ottoman Empire. …
The Dissolution of Yugoslavia
In 1989, Yugoslavia was a federation of six republics: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Montenegro. Today, the process of Yugoslavia’s breakup is still not complete. Although all six former constituent republics are now independent sovereign states, it was not without serious conflict that Yugoslavia was broken up. In addition, a seventh republic, Kosovo, has …
Effects of the Holocaust
For this week’s assignment, I chose to write about a topic with which I’m very familiar, the Holocust. For years, I’ve conducted independent research on the topic and have published a fair amount of material. I think it’s therefore safe to say that the Holocaust had extensive politics effects on Europe and the rest of …
On Atrocities
Armesto-Fernandez refers to the 20th century as a “century of atrocities” for quite literal reasons, with the author tying the term directly to the two major world wars fought over the course of the century. Certainly, if we examine the century chronologically, we can see that there was an uncommon amount and level of violence …
Inevitable Historicity 