The On The Bookshelf Podcast

Persecution of Armenian Christians by Turkey in 1922

Lou Urenick tells how the Turks systematically destroyed Armenian Christian communities during and after the Great War (World War I), including but limited to taking whole villages into the wilderness to rape, torture and abandon them to the elements, eventually pushing them to the Mediterranean Sea at Smyrna in 1922 in a find genocidal wave. The Turkish government still refuses to admit to the Armenian Genocide.

Dr. Aldon Morris on the Scholarship of Dr. W.E.B. Dubois

One of the legendary figures of the fight for equal rights for Black people in America, W.E.B. Dubois was an exceptional scholar as well as a highly influential writer and speaker in the early part of the 20th century.

The true story of how the Civil Rights Movement was covered by the Press

At first, white mainstream press didn't cover the Civil Rights Movement. But by the mid-1950s, they realized that the black-owned media was telling a story with national implications. The Race Beat tells their incredible story.

In the early 20th century, a catastrophic flood struck the Los Angeles Basin

How well-intentioned attempts to control the water supply of lower California resulted in a death and destruction on a wide scale.

From 2016, Christians in ISIS-controlled lands were targeted

Todd Nettleton of the international aid organization, "The Voice of the Martyrs", tells how Christians across the world can help those in ISIS-controlled lands, where their homes are marked by an "N". That stands for "Nazarene", which refers to Jesus the Christ.