Letter to Charles Evans Hughes from Frank Polk Re: Armenian Relief Work, July 12, 1919
Title | Letter to Charles Evans Hughes from Frank Polk Re: Armenian Relief Work, July 12, 1919 PDF eBook |
Author | Frank L. Polk (1871) |
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Pages | 5 |
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American Individualism
Title | American Individualism PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Hoover |
Publisher | Garden City, Doubleday |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Individualism |
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In this book, Hoover expounds and vigorously defends what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique. He argues that America can make steady, sure progress if we preserve our individualism, preserve and stimulate the initiative of our people, insist on and maintain the safeguards to equality of opportunity, and honor service as a part of our national character.
Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Title | Years of adventure, 1874-1920 PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Hoover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Presidents |
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Pennsylvania State Manual
Title | Pennsylvania State Manual PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1064 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Executive departments |
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Official Congressional Directory
Title | Official Congressional Directory PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1228 |
Release | 1999 |
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Style Manual of the Government Printing Office
Title | Style Manual of the Government Printing Office PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Government Printing Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Authorship |
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America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915
Title | America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Winter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2004-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139450182 |
Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for understanding the genocide: Sir Martin Gilbert, Vahakn Dadrian and Jay Winter provide an analytical setting for nine scholarly essays examining how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, though, were not enough to stop the killings. A terrible precedent was born in 1915, one which has come to haunt the United States and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century and beyond. To read the essays in this volume is chastening: the dilemmas Americans faced when confronting evil on an unprecedented scale are not very different from the dilemmas we face today.