YEREVAN — The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute has published the new monograph of Armen Kirakossian’s “The Armenian Genocide in Contemporary American Encyclopedias”. The edition was presented in English.
As the Museum-Institute’s website reports, in this publication Dr. Arman Kirakossian studied and analyzed nearly forty specialized and thematic encyclopedias (Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide, Encyclopedia of Genocide, etc.), dictionaries (Dictionary of Genocide, etc.), handbooks (The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies, etc.) and other directories published in the USA in the past fifteen years.
Based on the material gathered, the book was divided into chapters which represent conceptual and factual aspects of the Genocide beginning from the origins of the Armenian Question.
The book consists of 16 chapters, a list of encyclopedias, a bibliography of literature related to the Armenian Genocide taken from various encyclopedias.