Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-453) and index.

Part I Emergence of International Human Rights in America: The Armenian Massacres in the 1890s -- 1. A Gathering at Faneuil Hall 3 -- 2. "There in the Woods" 13 -- 3. Yankees in Armenia 23 -- 4. Sultan and the Armenian Question 35 -- 5. Killing Fields: The Massacres of the 1890s 53 -- 6. Humanity on Trial: Clara Barton and America's Mission to Armenia 63 -- 7. Walking Skeletons 81 -- 8. "The Tears of Araxes": The Voice of the Woman's Journal 93 -- 9. Ottoman Bank Incident and the Aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres 103 -- 10. "Our Boasted Civilization": Intellectuals, Popular Culture, and the Armenian Massacres of the 1890s 117 -- Part II Turkish Road to Genocide -- 11. Rise of the Young Turks 135 -- 12. Adana, 1909: Counterrevolution and Massacre 145 -- 13. Balkan Wars and World War I: The Road to Genocide 159 -- 14. Government-Planned Genocide 175 -- 15. Van, Spring 1915 197 -- 16. April 24 211 -- Part III American Witness -- 17. Ambassador at the Crossroads 219 -- 18. News from the American Consul in Harput 225 -- 19. Land of Dead 241 -- 20. From Jesse Jackson in Aleppo 251 -- 21. "Same Fate": Reports from All Over Turkey 265 -- 22. America's Golden Rule: Working for Armenia Again 277 -- Part IV Failed Mission -- 23. Wilson's Quandary 299 -- 24. Rise of a New Turkish Nationalism and the Campaign Against Armenia 319 -- 25. Turkish Confessions: The Ottoman Courts-Martial, Constantinople, 1919-1920 331 -- 26. American Mandate for Armenia 349 -- 27. New U.S. Oil Policy in the Middle East and the Turnabout on the Armenian Question 363 -- Epilogue: Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide and U.S. Complicity 373.