Armenian Genocide

Resource Library for Teachers

Teaching the Armenian Genocide
Resources for Teachers, Students and Educators
Resource Guide I

Published by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center (AGRC) of Northern California
Networking Solutions in Genocide and Holocaust Studies

 
This resource guide lists various books, teaching guides, research reports, monographs, archival documents, bibliographies, photographs, websites, videos, and maps available on the Armenian Genocide. 

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Model Curriculum For Human Rights and Genocide
Published for the California State Board of Education
by the California Department of Education
ISBN 0-8011-0725-3

This Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide, which serves as a guide for classroom teachers, supports the curriculum and instruction described in the framework. Pages 1-5 of this document contain a model that can be used by developers of curriculum.  This section provides the philosophical bases for including studies on human rights and genocide in the curriculum, identifies places in the history-social science courses where learnings can be included, and poses questions that will engage students in critical thinking on this topic.  Through the thoughtful interweaving of ideas, events, historical documents, and literature within the planned history lessons, we should help prepare students to be rational, humane decision makers and participating citizens in our democracy, citizens who understand what can go wrong if democratic principles are missing, and citizens who are dedicated to the protection of human rights now and in the future.

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The Armenian Genocide, 1915 – 1923
A Handbook for Students and Teachers
Prepared by the Armenian Cultural Foundation

About the Author: Simon Payaslian holds a Ph.D. In political science (Wayne State University, 1992) and is a Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

This handbook provides both a historical perspective of the Genocide and an overview of international and national constraints in preventing the genocides that followed, highlighting the world's inability to deal appropriately with the perpetrators of the Armenian Tragedy.  This book also provides teachers with maps, graphs, and eyewitness accounts as well as valuable teaching aids such as the worksheets, discussion and essay topics to maximize the student's understanding of how the unspeakable can occur and recur even in contemporary times. 

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The Armenians
Shadows of a Forgotten Genocide
August - October 1999
23 pages
 
Published by the Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Bayside, New York for its exhibit on the Armenian Genocide
 
A concise but comprehensive handbook for teachers, students and the general public with history, overview, map and discussion questions on the Armenian Genocide.  The extermination of the Armenian population of Turkey was the original model of genocide in the 20th Century. This outrage was publicly well known during the killings, but the world did little to help and quickly ignored the inconvenient reality.