Writing Ottoman history using the digitized U.S. consular archives NARA RG 59 (2/2): Some research directions into late Ottoman history, with particular emphasis on Ottoman Armenians.
This post follows a previous one that provided an overview of the NARA holdings and explained how to access them. The aim here is to give a general outline of the U.S. consular network in the Ottoman Empire, and then to suggest a few research directions, particularly with regard to...