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Philanthropy, Faith, and Influence: Documenting Protestant Missionary Activism during the Armenian Genocide

Call, Elizabeth N.; Baker, Matthew C.

American Protestant missionaries played important political and cultural roles in the late Ottoman Empire in the period before, during, and after the Armenian genocide. They reported on events as they unfolded and were instrumental coordinating and executing relief efforts by Western governments and charities. The Burke Library’s Missionary Research Library, along with several other important collections at Columbia and other nearby research repositories, holds a uniquely rich and comprehensive body of primary and secondary source materials for understanding the genocide through the lens of the missionaries’ attempts to document and respond to the massacres.

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The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections

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February 4, 2016