Event Videos — NAASR Vartan Gregorian Memorial Lecture

MORGENTHAU: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biographer Andrew Meier vividly chronicles how the Morgenthaus amassed a fortune in Manhattan real estate, advised presidents, advanced the New Deal, exposed the Armenian Genocide, rescued victims of the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and, from a foundation of private wealth, built a dynasty of public service.

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FROM BOGEYMAN TO HAY KIN: Representations of Armenian Women in Modern Iran

First Annual Vartan Gregorian Memorial Lecture

This talk is part of a larger book project that explores the history of Iran’s Armenian women from the beginning of Naser al-Din Shah’s reign in 1848 to the 1979 fall of the Pahlavi dynasty.

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