Henry Morgenthau Sr.
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Henry Morgenthau was a German-born American lawyer and businessman, best known for his role as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Morgenthau was one of the most prominent America
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1920s
Morgenthau c. 1899
Morgenthau (left), Samuel Train Dutton (center) and Cleveland Hoadley Dodge c. 1915–1920
A telegram written by Morgenthau to the State Department in 1915 described the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a "campaign of race extermination."
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of Wor
Henry Morgenthau Sr.
…was the father of the politician Henry Morgenthau Jr. His grandchildren include Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney of Manhattan for 35 years, and Barbara W. Tuchman, a historian who earned the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Guns of August. Morgenthau was born the ninth of 11 living children, in Mannheim, Baden…
Tuchman in 1971
Tuchman with William L. Shirer (left) and John Eisenhower (right) in 1971