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TeachGenocide.com
Published by The Genocide
Education Project
www.TeachGenocide.com
A cyber resource library published
specifically for teachers by The Genocide Education Project (www.GenocideEducation.org)
where various teaching resources on the Armenian Genocide and
other gross human rights violations are available to download
for classroom use including lesson plans, newspaper articles,
videos, survivor accounts, maps and more.
Facing History and Ourselves
www.facinghistory.org
FHAO not only provides wonderful
print resources on the Armenian genocide but also offers online
lesson plans. Lessons and Readings on the Armenian Genocide
is a set of lesson plans on four aspects of the Armenian
Genocide. The resource guide Crimes against Humanity and
Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians is also
available to download by chapter.
Model Curriculum for Human
Rights and Genocide
By the California State Board of Education
www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/modcurr-hr-pdf.asp
From the California Department of
Education Web site:
"This model curriculum reflects
the wishes of the people of California and their legislative
representatives to give local curriculum leaders and teachers
continued guidance in classroom practices. As in 1988, this
model curriculum supports the curriculum and instruction
described in the History-Social Science Framework for California
Public Schools. Since then the history-social science curriculum
has been reinforced with academic content standards, and this
model curriculum is supported by the history-social science
content standards that were adopted by the State Board of
Education in 1998. The Model Curriculum for Human Rights and
Genocide is only available as a PDF file."
Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
www.chgs.umn.edu
The director, Stephen Feinstein, a
noted genocide scholar, has constructed an amazing Web site
about genocide. The site includes a tremendous amount of
"student friendly" documents about the Armenian Genocide as well
as the Holocaust and other genocides of the Twentieth Century.
The Legacy Project
www.legacy-project.org
The Legacy Project provides a
collection of visual and literary art created by the descendents
of those who survived some of the most horrific atrocities of
the twentieth century including the Armenian genocide, the
Holocaust, and the Cambodian Genocide. The site offers examples
of artwork and literary.
Armenian Genocide Class Project
Ideas from Cobblestone Publishing
www.cobblestonepub.com/resources/cob0005t.html
www.cobblestonepub.com/resources/fac9909t.html
Cobblestone and Faces booklets are
children's publications produced by Cobblestone Publishing. The
publisher's mission is to produce publications that provide
fascinating and pleasurable reading as well as substantive
supplemental educational resources for the study of history,
world cultures, and the social sciences. Both the Cobblestone
and Faces online teacher's guides serve as excellent
springboards for a wider discussion on the subject of cultural
diversity, man's inhumanity to man, and historic revisionism.
Included is a K-12 Teacher's Guide and Lesson Plan for teaching
the Armenian Genocide, which has a wide assortment of classroom
activities, questions for discussion, suggested field trips, and
a host of web links for teachers and students. It is based on
COBBLESTONE' Armenian Americans Issue, May 2000. Both online
guides are freely available for viewing and downloading.
Teaching Tolerance Magazine
- The
World Was Silent
(Number 22, Fall 2002)
A Website of the
Southern Poverty Law Center
www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?p=0&is=30&ar=323
A study of the Armenian Genocide
raises troubling questions of remembrance and responsibility.
The Legacy of the Armenian Genocide: By learning about this
often overlooked genocide, students can reflect on moral
responsibility, identity and denial. Some educators believe we
are doing our students a disservice by shielding them from the
devastating toll genocides in other parts of the world have
inflicted on humankind. A web site for students and teachers
alike, it includes teaching tools, editor's notes, and archived
articles.
Anne Frank Lessons in Educating
for Human Rights
By Dr. Joyce Apsel, Anne Frank Center, USA, Inc.
fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/68plan/afcntr1.htm
Joyce Apsel is a genocide scholar
and Master Teacher, General Studies Program, New York
University, and Director of Rights Works; She was also the
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars,
2001-2003. Chapter 14 of this online learning center treats the
Armenian Genocide with a brief history of the genocide, the role
of memory and survivor testimony, with discussions of impunity
when perpetrators are unpunished and how this contributes to the
process of denial, and its impact on teaching history and moral
accountability. "The 20th century has been one of genocide
against individuals belonging to targeted groups. War is often a
cover for genocide and the genocide against the Armenian took
place during World War I."
The
Armenian Education Center
www.armenian-educationcenter.org
This site was designed to support
the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning and
Curriculum Framework for teachers in History/Social Sciences.
These lessons and study guide on the Armenian Genocide of 1915
have been developed to address WH II, 11b: examples of other
genocides (in addition to the Holocaust). |
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The Forgotten
(Dedicated to
the 1915 Armenian Genocide.)
www.theforgotten.org
A remarkable multimedia site with
sound, a Timeline, Images, and Survivor Accounts. Sections
include the 5-minute ABC Evening News Special Report by Peter
Jennings on the Armenian Genocide aired nationwide on April 1999
on ABC’s "The Century" with interviews and photographs. The
Survivors section includes online video testimonies by more than
25 people including Armin T. Wegner, Henry Morgenthau III and
many others. The Images section includes a slide show of 17
photographs and the Time Line presents an interactive timeline
for the events from 1893 to 1930 with sound and pictures.
Republic of Armenia - Armenian
Genocide Institute-Museum
www.armenocide.am
The Armenian Genocide Museum of
Armenia has provided a virtual multi-language tour of the
museum. The site contains an exposition of historical
documentary material, archival documents, and photos on the
Armenian Genocide. The Museum collects historical and
documentary material on the genocide from the state archives of
many countries. Online resources include a historical overview
of the genocide, various notable quotations, a map showing areas
where Armenians were killed along with the approximate number of
victims, tables listing regions affected by the genocide with
population figures before and after the genocide, and the number
of churches, schools, and settlements destroyed.
Armenian National Institute
www.armenian-genocide.org/index.htm
The Institute offers an excellent
and easily navigable site for teachers, educators, students, and
the general public that includes a comprehensive list of
resources, sample curricula, a chronology of the genocide,
archival documents, a list of international responses to the
genocide, press coverage of the genocide, photographs,
bibliographies, and much more. The site is divided into several
sections and includes maps, historical documents, a photo
collection and a site map.
Zoryan Institute
www.zoryaninstitute.org
The Zoryan Institute for
Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation is based in
both Canada and the U.S. The mission is to provide a "scholarly
center devoted to the documentation, study, and dissemination of
material related to the life of the Armenian people in the
recent past and the present, and within the context of larger
world affairs." The Web site has documents and books available
that would be of interest to teachers pursuing in depth units on
the Armenian Genocide.
Project Save
www.projectsave.org
Project Save is an archive for
Armenian related photographs whose mission is "is to collect,
document, preserve, and present the historic and modern
photographic record of Armenians and Armenian heritage." Their
Web site includes some historic photographs of interest and
contains a "virtual museum" about Armenian history.
Documents from German State
Archives
www.armenocide.de/armenocide/armgende.nsf
Revised and extended edition of
the collection of diplomatic documents published by Johannes
Lepsius in 1919 under the title "Germany and Armenia. The
Armenian genocide during World War I was the first violent crime
against humanity in the 20th century. To further education and
awareness of this crime, the genocide can now be verified via
the Internet from official German documents, available in German
and English that describe the events in detail. They include
hundreds of documents, detailing graphically, day in and day
out, the atrocities that took place in the interior of Turkey
during World War I. These were produced by German officials,
consuls, vice consuls, and military officers. They reveal that
the true intention of Turkish leaders was extermination (Ausrottung).
University of Michigan Dearborn
– Armenian Research Center
www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts
www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/answers.html
Site contains articles on Armenia,
Armenian history and the genocide, including a Fact Sheet on the
genocide, several full text essays including one under Selected
Writings of Dr. Dennis Papazian addressing denial and the
distortion of the facts of the genocide: "Misplaced Credulity:
Contemporary Turkish Attempts to Refute the Armenian Genocide."
Includes links to important articles on a range of topics
related to the genocide including the "King-Crane Commission
Report on the Near East," (Official United States Government
Report) that dealt with the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide.
Includes a link to the online text of "The Blight of Asia" by
George Horton, American Consul in Smyrna in 1922 who was
eyewitness to many events and who also availed himself of the
testimony of other diplomats' accounts of the Turkish massacres
of Armenians and Greeks.
Detroit Free Press: "Lessons of
Armenian Genocide Relevant to all Nations."
www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/papazian/lesson.html
April is Genocide Month and many
people of goodwill are commemorating with solemn observances the
Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. Others ask why we
should remember a genocide carried out during World War I, and a
Holocaust that took place during World War II. Each day's
newspaper brings us fresh stories of slaughter and carnage in
some corner of the world. What makes these events different and
still relevant to our era? First, of course, are the moral
arguments. These were evil deeds, systematically carried out on
a large scale by unjust governments against defenseless
religious minorities. The Armenian Genocide, the first genocide
of the 20th Century, took the lives of as many as 1.5 million
people, yet the Turkish government denies to this day that it
happened.
Treatment of the Armenians in
the Ottoman Empire
White paper by Viscount Bryce 1916. Bryce's complete report
to Viscount Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the
Armenian massacres in Turkey.
zeus.hri.org/docs/bryce/bryce.htm
Next to Ambassador Morgenthau's
book, this is one of the most important books on the Armenian
Genocide. It documents, area by area, town by town, with
coincident eyewitness testimony by countless individuals,
collected by Viscount Bryce, the destruction of the Armenians in
Turkey. He provides an analysis of the material and a
description of how Ottoman leaders attempted to prevent news of
the events from reaching the outside. He begins his preface
with: "In the summer of 1915, accounts, few and scanty at first,
but increasing in volume later, began to find their way out of
Asiatic Turkey as to the events that were happening there. These
accounts described what seemed to be an effort to exterminate a
whole nation, without distinction of age or sex, whose
misfortune it was to be the subjects of a Government devoid of
scruples and of pity, and the policy they disclosed was one
without precedent even in the blood-stained annals of the East."
It includes maps, a table of contents, letters, correspondences,
and interviews with many witnesses- American, German, teachers,
missionaries and others (available for purchase from Gomidas
Institute Books,
www.gomidas.org). |
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Prevent Genocide International
www.preventgenocide.org
Prevent Genocide International has
a tremendous amount of information about genocides and the
concept of genocide. It is a trove of assorted documents that
are more geared for adults than for students in terms of reading
level.
The Committee on Conscience at
the United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org/conscience/home
The Committee on Conscience (COC)
provides information on current genocides and on possible
genocidal activities today. It contains a wealth of resources on
the history and definition of genocide. More recently, the Web
site has added resources specifically for educators and
students.
Genocide Watch
www.genocidewatch.org
The Genocide Watch "exists to
predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide and other forms of
mass murder." It is a laudable organization led by the most
noted scholars in the field of Genocide Studies. The Web site
has great resources that can be easily modified for educational
use including a "pledge" and a description of the eight stages
of genocide (both used in the lesson plans).
Institute for the Study of
Genocide/International Association of Genocide Scholars
www.isg-iags.org
What kinds of actions and
institutions could prevent such events? The Institute for the
Study of Genocide (ISG) and the International Association of
Genocide Scholars (IAGS) advance and review such research.
Besides this, their officers and members advise media,
governments and intergovernmental organizations concerned with
early warning and prevention. Site includes their archived
newsletters, a list of their conferences and papers, and a list
of available books to order.
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